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An over seven million-year-old find from Bulgaria shows early two-legged features and raises new questions about the origin of man.
It is unclear when and where our two-legged passage was created. Tübingen University now shows that the Graecopithecus was able to walk upright in the Balkans already 7.2 million years ago.
New Fossil Evidence Suggests Grecopithecus Exhibited Partial Bipedalism
A groundbreaking discovery of a 7.2-million-year-old femur at the Azmaka fossil site in southern Bulgaria reveals a unique blend of locomotor features, suggesting both quadrupedal and bipedal abilities. This significant finding involves a research team led by Professor Madeleine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen. The [...] The post New Fossil Evidence Suggests Grecopithecus E…
A newly discovered fossilized femur from Bulgaria could rewrite the history of human origins, according to an international research team from the National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and the University of Toronto (Canada). Bipedalism, or walking on two legs, has long been considered a fundament…
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