Its unique walking features implied that this transformation to bipedalism – walking on two feet — did not ... fascinating details about the evolution of human anatomy and locomotion ...

When an ape walks upright, weight is transmitted from the heel, along the outside of the foot, and then through the middle toes. A human foot transmits weight from the heel, along the outside of ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

Little Foot is probably the oldest and best-preserved ... And we could fit that into the big picture of human evolution at the time." ...

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived there at the same time about 1.5 million years ago ...

The foot metatarsal bone found this year is the ... María Martinón-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, described the Hualongdong site as one of the most ...