Re: Bipedalism and the Terrestrial Sifaka Theory

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Sifakas are a good try. But they are not brachiators, or
climbers of the type the latest common ancestor is now
believe to have been. Their mode of locomotion is known as
leap-and-cling. The indris and other Madagascar lemurs get
around in the same way. On the ground the sifaka does not
walk as we do. It proceeds by sideways two-footed jumps like
a child in a sack race. I do not think this is a likely
origin for our own locomotor bipedalism.

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Elaine Morgan

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