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Paleoanthropology

the hypothesis that human bipedalism evolved from an ancestor that knuckle-walked like chimpanzees and gorillas, supported by wrist features in early hominins.

In paleoanthropology, knuckle-walking ancestor hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that human bipedalism evolved from an ancestor that knuckle-walked like chimpanzees and gorillas, supported by wrist features in early hominins. This meaning comes from Richmond (2000) in Nature.[1]

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Richmond, B. G., & Strait, D. S. (2000). Evidence that humans evolved from a knuckle-walking ancestor. Nature, 404(6776), 382-385. https://doi.org/10.1038/35006045

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