As remarkable as our adaptations for bipedalism are, they are, like all evolutionary transformations, a compromise with history.

The bones, which the team dated to nearly 12 million years ago, suggest that bipedalism might have evolved in a common ancestor of humans and other great apes living in Europe, and not in more-recent ...

In the case of hominins of the Australopithecus and Paranthropus genera, endowed with anatomical adaptations associated with habitual bipedal locomotion and brachiation, Potau states, "We ...