Chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two legs
six million years ago. by Barbara Hale State
University, Public release date: 2-Sep-2004
Chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two leg | EurekAlert!
"Recent fossil evidence suggests that a hominid, the size
of a chimp, walked upright on two legs in Kenya's Tugen
Hills, over 6 million years ago --- about 3 million years
earlier than "Lucy," the most famous early biped in
lineage."
The paper is:
Galik, K., Senut, B., Pickford, M. Gommery, D., Treil,
J., Kuperavage, A. J., and Eckhardt, R. B. 2004,
External and Internal Morphology of the BAR 1002'00
Orrorin tugenensis Femur. Science. vol. 305,
no. 5689, pp. 1450-1453 (3 September 2004)
Yours,
Bill
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