Fossils provide new insights into when apes began to walk
Walking on two feet could have evolved earlier than current estimates, according to analysis of 11.6-million-year-old fossils from a newly discovered great ape species, Danuvius guggenmosi.
The discovery reveals a possible common ancestor of humans and great apes, write Madelaine Böhme from Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen, Germany, and colleagues in the journal Nature.
It also contests theories about how hominin bipedalism evolved, they suggest.
Published by Cosmos.
