bipedal species

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In article <45b6fv$gnd@news.cc.ucf.edu> Thomas Clarke,
clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu writes:

>You almost make my point. Are there not several species of macropopids?
>The environment favored the development of bipedal jumping (saltation)
>and several species "answered the call" by becoming macropopids.
>If the general forest/savannah paleo-environment of Africa favored
>bipedalism, then where are the other bipedal animals?

I count 11 other bipedal hominoid species, and that is probably an
underestimate.

Alex Duncan
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1086
512-471-4206
aduncan@mail.utexas.edu

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