Posts Tagged ‘bipedalism’
Nutcracker Man had a taste for grass
U. COLORADO (US) — An ancient, bipedal hominid sporting huge molars preferred to slurp up vast quantities of grass, instead of crunching on the food that earned it the nickname Nutcracker Man. Continue…
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Pre-humans in Africa evolved to beat the heat
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—In the Turkana Basin of Kenya the average daily temperature has reached the mid-90s or higher, year-round, for the past 4 million years, which may explain in part why pre-humans learned to walk upright, lost the fur that covered the bodies of their predecessors, and became able to sweat more. (more…)
