Ancient ape fossil yields surprising new insights about human evolution. - NBCNewsMACH
Rudapithecus was pretty apelike and probably moved among branches like apes do now, holding its body upright and climbing with its arms.Jeremy Deaton
The fossilized pelvis of Rudapithecus, a long-extinct relative of humans and modern apes, may hold the answer. New research on the fragmentary remains suggests that when the beagle-sized ape descended from the trees, she didn’t, as previously thought. Rather, she stood upright on two legs — much like a human.
“This is the oldest pelvis that looks like an ape pelvis,” said study co-author David Begun, a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto who discovered the fossil.
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