A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

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The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say. One genetic change flipped the ilium — the bone your hands rest on when ...

About 42,000 years ago, Neanderthals began to disappear, and the first anatomically modern human (AMHs) groups started to expand in Western Europe. This can be seen in the well-preserved layers of the ...

Harvard scientists have discovered new evolutionary changes in pelvic structure that allowed the first humans to walk upright on two legs. The August study published in the journal Nature reveals that ...

The wide, basin-shaped pelvis of modern humans helps us walk upright on two legs and give birth safely to babies with large heads. Pixabay Walking upright on two legs is one of the key traits that ...

Humans have been walking on two legs for millions of years. All vertebrate species have a pelvis, but only humans use it for upright, two-legged walking.* The evolution of the human pelvis, and our ...

Scientists uncovered how genetic changes helped humans walking upright, offering new insight into a key step in human evolution. Credit: Stadtpflaenzchen / wikimedia commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain A ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...