bipedalism made the human form of birth possible. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is commonly believed that this led to bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Bell curves] Reference
It shows evidence of bipedalism as early as 3.6 mya. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: June 2010 Archives] Reference
But two-leggedness, bipedalism, is rare among living things. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way] Reference
Moreover, bipedalism preceded white skin by millions of years. From Wordnik.com. [Hannity, Clinton, Obama, Rev. Wright and "Racism 101"] Reference
"Personally I've always considered bipedalism lousy engineering.". From Wordnik.com. [Codgerspace]
I want to know when and under what pressures bipedalism developed. From Wordnik.com. [Zinj and the Leakeys] Reference
I wrote “It shows evidence of bipedalism as early as 3.6 mya.”. From Wordnik.com. [Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb. From Wordnik.com. [Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"I don't know why bipedalism has to have a social origin," says Begun. From Wordnik.com. [Catch a Pithecus by the Toe] Reference
Then I worked with a colleague who studies the evolution of bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations: Bigfoot Exposed!] Reference
Thus facultative bipedalism became the habitual bipedalism we see today. From Wordnik.com. [Human Family Walks on All Fours] Reference
Paleoanthropologists have long recognized bipedalism as a hallmark of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Giant Leap for Humankind] Reference
Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis is the next entry in this blog. From Wordnik.com. [A bit more on Haeckel - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
As one would expect, bipedalism frees the hands to be used independent of motion. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Inescapable Reality] Reference
We can, therefore, consider bipedalism required to make humans a tool using animal. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Inescapable Reality] Reference
Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis was the previous entry in this blog. From Wordnik.com. [Freshwater: Hearing testimony ends! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
If I want to talk about human bipedalism, maybe I can focus just on human evolution. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Diku 2008] Reference
If accepted, these theories could end a century-old debate regarding the origins of bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
The surprising finding was that bipedalism was equally or more efficient for the other two chimps. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
What these theories have in common is that they imply that bipedalism emerged as a way to save energy. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
Thus, bipedalism may have emerged as a way for human ancestors to save energy as they moved through trees. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
Your best bet in finding it is to google “savannah” and “bipedalism” and possibly “heat loss”. From Wordnik.com. [Bell curves] Reference
We discuss the impact of skeletal and pelvic bone arrangement on labor and delivery in my unit on bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Walking Upright] Reference
When averaged as a group, the chimpanzees showed no significant difference between bipedalism and quadrupedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
Even if humans did desperately need to save energy, Walker says they could have used methods other than bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
"Faith," a truly amazing bipedal dog see YouTube clip below, provides a textbook example of facultative bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Human Family Walks on All Fours] Reference
For selection to occur, this had to be present in the population before bipedalism in order to select for bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Inescapable Reality] Reference
If it is bipedalism then so was the female and so it must have or be intermediate in having evidence of pain at birthing. From Wordnik.com. [Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Climbing is in our genes, a hangover from childhood and our distant ancestors who developed bipedalism and started walking. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Why Climb the Highest Mountain? - NASA Watch] Reference
According to Thorpe, bipedalism would have saved energy for our ancestors, just as it saved energy for the orangutans in her study. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
It may well be that human births are, on average, somewhat more difficult than other animals, given our large heads and bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The authors mention that wrist-walking might have been an intermediate stage during the evolution of bipedalism from quadrupedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
According to Sockol and Raichlen, the presence of these traits suggests that bipedalism was more energy efficient for our ancestors too. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
I'm not really a big fan of habitual bipedalism in big pterosaurs anyway though in small ones like Dimorphodon I think it's more likely. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1] Reference
At the end of the day, Thorpe and Sockol's energy hypotheses seem to be just two more possible explanations for the origins of bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Going Bipedal] Reference
(1. 6-5.3 million yrs BP) Development of hominid bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [Geologic time] Reference
This, of course, is meant to set the stage for a discussion of bipedalism. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Because they can check for bipedalism via the head as well, and that would be a lot harder to fake. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
White describes her as an "interesting mosaic" with certain uniquely human characteristics: bipedalism, for one. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
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