Re: Bipedalism

Phil Nicholls (pn8886@thor.albany.edu)
19 May 1995 20:26:42 GMT

In article <3pd85q$6fn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Clara N. Fitzgerald <cfitzger@s.psych.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>iboothby@Direct.CA (Iboothby) writes:
>
>> I was always under the assumption that bipedalism was convienient not
>>for helping early australios to see further but provided a way to cover
>>ground at a farily leasury pase. Humans seen ideally adapted for covering
>>a lot of distance in their feet. Our ansestors seemed to migrate a lot,
>>they travelled and explored places. I couldn't imagine a chimp walking
>>across a savanna, covering a lot of distance the way a human would.
>
>How about a baboon troop?
>
>[Sorry, but argument from incredulity is hard to resist]

Baboons are very specialized terrestrial primates. Chimpanzees are
still primarily arboreal.

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