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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]

Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

1 posted on 02/07/2015 9:22:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

What about meerkats?


3 posted on 02/07/2015 9:27:35 AM PST by Mercat
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To: SunkenCiv
hipbone?

That's an ilium.

9 posted on 02/07/2015 9:32:57 AM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"the orthograde body plan"

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

10 posted on 02/07/2015 9:42:48 AM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: SunkenCiv

Walk like a man, talk like a man......but sing like a girl? Strange song.


22 posted on 02/07/2015 10:11:02 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: SunkenCiv

form follows function... if a particular body plan gives an advantage you shouldn’t be surprised to see it multiple times


27 posted on 02/07/2015 11:02:36 AM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: SunkenCiv

It came about when the females kept asking the males to get something off the top of the trees.


28 posted on 02/07/2015 12:24:42 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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