Walk like a man: Fossil raises puzzling questions...

Harvard Gazette ^ | February 3, 2015 | Peter Reuell

[SunkenCiv]

full title, "Walk like a man: Fossil raises puzzling questions about how upright body plan of great apes evolved".

The fossilized hipbone of an ape called Sivapithecus (photo 1) is raising a host of new questions about whether the upright body plan of apes may have evolved multiple times. "What we do know is that the evolution of the orthograde body plan in apes is not a simple story," noted Harvard's Michele Morgan (photo 2), co-author of the paper. [Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer]

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[Mercat]

What about meerkats?

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution.

The Scars of Evolution:
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins
by Elaine Morgan

"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"

from the FRchives:

• Infectious Evolution: Ancient Virus Hit Apes, Not Our Ancestors, In The Genes [4/02/2005]

[SunkenCiv]

Eventually we’ll be extinct, and the descendants of today’s meercats will be trying to figure all this out.

[SunkenCiv]

http://blogs.andbeyond.com/karen_richards/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Meerkats-2-921x1024.jpg

[Dutchboy88]

Ruh-roh

[null and void]

Some of them FReep...

[gasport]

hipbone?

That's an ilium.

[Flag_This]

"the orthograde body plan"

Don't they advertise that fitness program on cable all the time?

[JohnG45]

That's an ilium.

It's more than that.

There is an intact acetabulum present which would have been comprised of the ilium, ischium and pubis. The pubic symphysis would be by the man's right thumb and the ilium flaring into his left hand.

[ClearCase_guy]

Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

[SunkenCiv]

Early volcano victims discovered
BBC | Monday, May 3, 1999 | editors
Posted on 09/03/2004 10:59:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1207091/posts

[Pearls Before Swine]

Eventually we’ll be extinct, and the descendants of today’s meercats will be trying to figure all this out.

Good image!

Imagine what their anthropologists will think if they come and decode upon archived Hollywood, Bollywood, etc.

[SunkenCiv]

Now, now, nothin’s happened so far.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m in shape. Round is a shape.

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like a piece of Marlowe up there.

[SunkenCiv]

Perhaps, he must have died of something.

[BenLurkin]

You’re hip!

[SunkenCiv]

Of course, they’ll only be 24 inches tall, and when they see those extinct jokers on the screen, they’ll say, “wow, they look like giants”.