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Upper canine and lower canine.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 A Taxonomic classification of hominins versus hominids.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 Both humans and apes readily engage in learned imitative behavior.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 The complexity of a tropical forest may have favored the evolution of primate intelligence.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
In the Tai Forest a female chimp demonstrates a skill once thought to be unique to humans. Here she
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 Reconstructed Australopithecus afarensis spine shows that species walked upright.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 Several scenarios for what led to the origin of habitual bipedalism.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 Knucklewalking.
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The biped’s foot bears more weight than the quadruped’s and so the bones are stouter.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 To keep the foot under the center of gravity, the biped’s femur is angled from hip to knee. The quad
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 The gluteal muscles are repositioned in the biped and aid in support.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 To maintain balance the bipedal pelvis has a foreshortened ilium and is broader and bowl-shaped. The
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
The difference between a human and an ape.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 Becoming a biped changes the way an animal balances.
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Date: Feb 21, 2015
 The fossil record of chimpanzees is sparse. The femur from Kikongo, Uganda (c) may represent a late
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Date: Feb 4, 2015
 Sivapithecus is a Miocene ape (middle) with anatomical similarities to orangutans (left) rather than
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Date: Feb 4, 2015
Pierolapithecus catalunicus may be an ancestor of great apes and humans. Its postcranial skeleton sh
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Date: Feb 4, 2015
 Morotopithecus is the earliest fossil ape to show postcranial adaptations similar to those of the li
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Date: Feb 4, 2015
 The most complete Victoriapithecus skull from Maboko Island, Kenya.
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Date: Feb 4, 2015
 Apidium may be ancestral to all later higher primates and is reconstructed as looking like a small-b
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Date: Feb 4, 2015
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