NEW THINKING. “The prevailing view in the earlier literature on the evolution of bipedalism has been a particularly linear one, with the usual pattern being a neat series of steps from arboreal quadruped to obligate biped. As more fossil evidence accumulated, some researchers entertained the possibility of locomotor diversity in contemporary early hominins, but this view was far from prevalent.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0021-8782.2004.00296.x/full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022