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Author Topic:   Bipedalism in apes: a plesiomorphic trait?
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10-01-2007 12:31 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Doddy
10-01-2007 5:19 AM


I don't know whether it is relevant to the OP exactly, but this past summer I linked to a BBC article about a proposal that bipedalism evolved among our arboreal ancestors to aid in walking along thin branches, and that it is the obligate bipedalism of the more terrestrial apes that is the derived feature.
In that context it seems plausible.

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