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Re: Dissecting the Aquatic Ape: Bipedalism
Promethius (promethius@aol.com)
14 Jul 1996 22:56:02 -0400
Knuckle walking is an very specialized form of locomotor adaptation,
every bit as much so as bipedialism. It therefore stands to reason that
both bipedialism and knuckle walking evolved from a common ancestor that
did neither. Because human kind evolved from some distant ape-like
ancestor, and most apes walk on their knuckles, it does not follow that
human kind at some point walked on its knuckles too. Bad argument,
circular reasoning.
Chet
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