Re: tree-climbing hominid

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j#d#.moore@canrem.com (J. Moore) writes:

>PC> of the infant hominid foot. Either an infant can, with four limbs,
>PC> support its own weight or it cannot. Only when >50% of infant hominids
>PC> can no longer do this, should the species be regarded as bipedal.

If the only choice is between arborealism and bipealism the 50%
cut-off seems like a good one if we are to use bivalent/boolean
thinking and terminology as in "bipedal", "not_bipedal", or
"arboreal", "not_arboreal".

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