A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ancestors began their transition to bipedalism. The bone’s morphology suggests ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ancestors began their ...

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Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity to walk upright on two legs - a distinctly human trait known as bipedalism ...

For decades, the transition to bipedalism has been placed somewhere between six and seven million years ago, largely based on African fossil evidence. But a recent analysis published in the journal ...