Bipedalism Research Paper
ADAPTING TO THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: Bipedalism
Bipedalism- the condition of being two-footed or of using two feet for standing and walking.
The hominoid apes flourished at the very beginning of the Miocene epoch, when lush tropical rain forests were the predominant habitat.
In the Opinion of many Anthropologists, bipedalism was adaptive for life amid the tall grasses of the savannas.
Baboons and some other old World monkeys also live in savanna- type environments, yet although they can, and do occasionally, stand erect, they have not evolved fully bipedal locomotion.
Other theories stress the importance of freeing the hands. If some hand activity is critical while an animal is moving; selection may favor bipedalism because it frees the hands for other activities at the …show more content…
Jane Goodall has seen chimpanzees: "loading their arms with choices of wild fruits, then walking erect for several yards to a spot of shade before sitting down to eat."
" and if they could use a stone or a stick they might easily double their food supply."
Prehominids use some tools in order to chopped, crushed and butcher animal for food. Their teeth and jaws are not sharp an strong enough.
Other consequences of Bipedalism and Tool making:
-Enlargement of the brain
-Infant dependency
-Division of labor between men and women
-Food sharing The human pelvis is primarily adapted for upright, two-legged waling and running, it also favored the widening of the female pelvis to allow larger- brained babies to be born.
Other effect of bipedalism:
More efficient tool making more efficient hunting to develop
- There are definite archeological signs that early hominids were hunting or scavenging animals at least as far back as Lower Pleistocene times (12,000 B.C.)
Australopithecines
Raymond Dart's Taung
Bipedalism- the condition of being two-footed or of using two feet for standing and walking.
The hominoid apes flourished at the very beginning of the Miocene epoch, when lush tropical rain forests were the predominant habitat.
In the Opinion of many Anthropologists, bipedalism was adaptive for life amid the tall grasses of the savannas.
Baboons and some other old World monkeys also live in savanna- type environments, yet although they can, and do occasionally, stand erect, they have not evolved fully bipedal locomotion.
Other theories stress the importance of freeing the hands. If some hand activity is critical while an animal is moving; selection may favor bipedalism because it frees the hands for other activities at the …show more content…
Jane Goodall has seen chimpanzees: "loading their arms with choices of wild fruits, then walking erect for several yards to a spot of shade before sitting down to eat."
" and if they could use a stone or a stick they might easily double their food supply."
Prehominids use some tools in order to chopped, crushed and butcher animal for food. Their teeth and jaws are not sharp an strong enough.
Other consequences of Bipedalism and Tool making:
-Enlargement of the brain
-Infant dependency
-Division of labor between men and women
-Food sharing The human pelvis is primarily adapted for upright, two-legged waling and running, it also favored the widening of the female pelvis to allow larger- brained babies to be born.
Other effect of bipedalism:
More efficient tool making more efficient hunting to develop
- There are definite archeological signs that early hominids were hunting or scavenging animals at least as far back as Lower Pleistocene times (12,000 B.C.)
Australopithecines
Raymond Dart's Taung