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Technical CommentsComment on "Origin of Human Bipedalism As an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches"![]()
Thorpe et al. (Reports, 1 June 2007, p. 1328) concluded that human bipedalism evolved from a type of bipedal posture they observed in extant orangutans with seemingly human-like extended knees. However, humans share knuckle-walking characters with African apes that are absent in orangutans. These are most parsimoniously explained by positing a knuckle-walking precursor to human bipedalism.
1 Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S2, Canada. * These authors contributed equally to this work.
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