The Evolution of Bipedalism — HHMI BioInteractive Video

The human evolution timeline began with bipedalism. Explore the evidence of hominid evolution in this classroom-ready biology video.

Why do humans walk on two legs? The fossil Ardipithecus ramidus sheds light on how and when our ability to walk upright first evolved. Explore this Ethiopian archaeological marvel and the evolutionary history of human anatomy.

[CEngelbrecht]

Hominoid bipedalism started as wading. Elaime Morgan was right.

[stevemorris]

I wonder how long it took to develop an efficient throwing action??🇬🇧

[ChronicNewb]

I mentioned this on another vid, but as an avid climber, I'd like to request that toe thumb back please.

[zeff]

Ardipithecus is an interesting species in the apes family

[Aluminata]

They came down from the trees and walked upright four and a half million years ago - yet no stone tools have been found more than two and a half million years ago.
Technology was slow back then.

[Edruezzi]

Given that populations evolving bipedalism would have been marginal, bipedalism could have evolved perhaps eight times.