US EditionNew Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor
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The ArchaeologistNew Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor
Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not everyone is convinced
The oldest ancestor of the human, the oldest hominid or, to formulate it otherwise, the oldest biped, is 7 million years old. This is what a new study led by the University of New York reveals. Would one of our oldest biped ancestors have been discovered? That's what seems to indicate
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A study based on 3D analysis of hip and arm bones from Chad points to an anatomical structure that allows for upright walking, but other researchers raise doubts and warn that the conclusions are based on a damaged bone.
7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking
For more than two decades, Sahelanthropus tchadensis -- a very early (6.7 to 7.2 million years old) hominin species discovered in Chad in 2001 -- has hovered at the center of a contentious question: did one of humanity’s earliest relatives walk upright? The post 7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
He could, he couldn't, he could: The debate about whether Sahelanthropus was two-legged and thus the first foreman is undecided so far. Now there are new arguments.
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