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The evolution of bones in primates' knees could have implications for how humans evolved to walk upright, a new study has found. Researchers from King's College London analyzed the presence of the ...

BOSTON — Bad backs, dangerous childbirths, sore feet and wisdom teeth pains are among the many ailments humans face from evolution, researchers say. In an evolutionary sense, humans are by far the ...

The chimp with the most human-like gait and body type walked upright more efficiently than he knuckle-walked a finding that study co-author Herman Pontzer calls a snapshot of how this evolution may ...

A new study provides support for the hypothesis that walking on two legs, or bipedalism, evolved because it used less energy than quadrupedal knucklewalking. David Raichlen, an assistant professor of ...

Five fossil footprints left in volcanic ash 3.66 million years ago in Tanzania are giving scientists new insight on a landmark in human evolution - upright walking - while showing that its origins are ...

New research on Sahelanthropus tchadensis fossils from Chad provides strong evidence that this 6.7–7.2 million-year-old hominin could walk upright. Analyses of a femur and forearm bones reveal ...

The 2.8 million-year-old Australopithecus africanus "Taung child" skull was discovered in South Africa in 1925. Source: Wikimedia/Creative Commons New research further validates that bipedalism ...

Long before our ancestors evolved large brains and language, even before they tamed fire or made stone tools, they started doing something no mammal had done before: walking on two legs. Skeletal ...