Re: bipedalism and AAH

Pat Dooley (patdooley@aol.com)
8 May 1995 21:52:20 -0400

Loopy writes:

> << deletions>> ...................... Rigid knees fit
>in just fine with the savannah-ape or forest-ape scenario, and so cannot
>support the aquatic ape hypothesis.

Except that bipedalism, as in Lucy, evolved before the knee-locking
mechanism of human bipedalism. Since Lucy is post-aquatic,
ridid knees have nothing to do with the AAH.

Pat D