The research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41888101,41988101,and 41625005);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK705);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26030300,XDA20070203,and XDA19050100)。
Various lines of evidence have been used to infer the origin of human bipedalism,but the paucity of hominoid postcranial fossils and the diversity of inferred locomotor modes have tended to confound the reconstruction...
Anew study of a 7–8-million-year-old extinct fossil ape from China called Lufengpithecus offers new insights into the evolution of human bipedalism.The study,published in The Innovation,was conducted by a team from t...
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