Re: Gliders to Fliers? (Was Re: Ruben Strikes Back)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/25/99 8:05:43 PM EST, dbensen@gotnet.net writes:

<< You say that the protohumans were bipedal at their earliest stages?  I 
thought
 that they hadn't really become good at walking on their hind legs until 
fairly
 late in their development (?) >>

No, humans weren't bipedal at their earliest stages; they were quadrupedal 
climbing animals like modern apes. Only later, after they ceased being 
habitual climbers, did they become bipedal walkers. Modern apes have remained 
roughly at the part-climbing, part-