Professor Humphrey said this could be the way that humankind’s direct ancestors walked.
Hands which have kept the fingers dextrous would also have been able to manipulate tools, a key development which influenced the evolution of the human body and intelligence.
“I think it’s possible that what we are seeing in this family is something that does correspond to a time when we didn’t walk like chimpanzees but was an important step between coming down from the trees and becoming fully bipedal,” the LSE researcher said.
Family may provide evolution clue (BBC)
Walking on all fours with the ancestors (Times)
Human quadrupeds discovered in Turkey (AFP)
(Thanks, Conrad!)
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