WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago ...

Researchers say human right-handedness may be linked to bipedal walking and larger brain development during evolution.

Few attributes of being human have attracted more intense thought than the simple fact that, unlike all other living mammals, we walk upright on two legs. Human bipedalism represents a major ...

Perhaps the most profound advance in primate evolution occurred about 6 million years ago when our ancestors started walking on two legs. The gradual shift to bipedal locomotion is thought to have ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

A male western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo. The origin of human bipedalism has long been a hot topic among paleoanthropologists. At the very least it is seen as something ...

After an extensive study of evolutionary, anatomical and fossil evidence, a team of paleoanthropologists has narrowed down the number of tenable hypotheses to explain the origin of bipedalism and our ...

Image: Marcia Ponce de León and Christoph Zollikofer/University of Zürich One of the things that makes our species unique is our exceptionally large brain relative to body size. Brain size more than ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Humans might have evolved our two-footed posture for its fighting advantage; we punch harder ...