Early hominid first walked on 2 legs in the woods
Friday, October 9, 2009 - 08:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as generations of scientists - going back to Charles Darwin - hypothesised, but in a wooded landscape...