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Why aren't humans 'knuckle-walkers?'
« on: March 25, 2018, 01:57:44 pm »

Why aren't humans 'knuckle-walkers?'
3/20/2018 09:00:00 PM 
 
Why aren't humans 'knuckle-walkers?'

Credit: Case Western Reserve University
Their bodies—more specifically, their hands—represent a compromise adaptation allowing both forms of travel.

That’s according to Bruce Latimer, professor of anthropology, anatomy and cognitive science and director of the Center for Human Origins, who was one of the study’s authors. Their work was published in The Anatomical Record.

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