Anthropologists generally regard an upright gait as essential for membership in the human evolutionary family. However, some of our earliest ancestors may have favored knuckle-walking on all fours, much as chimpanzees and gorillas do, according to a study in the March 23 Nature.
Brian G. Richmond and David S. Strait, both anthropologists at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,
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