Despite those differences, “upright walking preceded the great ape/human split and likely started in Europe,” Böhme says. Measurements of three Danuvius limb bones, two of which come from the ...

Of all primates living today, only we humans walk fully upright. But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor ...

In their 3D simulations of chimpanzee birth ... infants is usually explained by a trade-off between needing to walk upright — which requires a shorter and wider pelvis with a birth canal ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.