Evolution Soup

The Seven-Million-Year-Long Journey - Why Humans Stood Upright ~ with JEREMY DESILVA

February 19, 2023 JEREMY DESILVA @desilva_jerry Season 6 Episode 2
The Seven-Million-Year-Long Journey - Why Humans Stood Upright ~ with JEREMY DESILVA
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Evolution Soup
The Seven-Million-Year-Long Journey - Why Humans Stood Upright ~ with JEREMY DESILVA
Feb 19, 2023 Season 6 Episode 2
JEREMY DESILVA @desilva_jerry

What caused the ancestors of human beings start walking upright? The seven-million-year-long-journey started in the trees of Africa and culminates in Homo sapiens dominance of the globe. But the answers to 'why' and 'when' are still elusive.

JEREMY DESILVA
is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. Jeremy ('Jerry') specializes in the locomotion of the first apes and early human ancestors.  His most recent work focuses on the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage.

In this Evolution Soup Special, host MARK talks with Jerry about the various theories relating to bipedality and specifically about recent hominid discoveries Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi.

ORIGINAL VIDEO https://bit.ly/3YKu6d9


LINKS FOR JEREMY DESILVA:


SITE: https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva

TWITTER: @desilva_jerry


BOOK:

First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human: https://amzn.to/3i6xZX6


SEE ALSO:

Dartmouth College: https://home.dartmouth.edu/

Dartmouth College flyover footage by Danny Katz 

Lee Berger's Fossil Vault YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zGJ4V8


Boston Science Museum: https://www.mos.org/



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What caused the ancestors of human beings start walking upright? The seven-million-year-long-journey started in the trees of Africa and culminates in Homo sapiens dominance of the globe. But the answers to 'why' and 'when' are still elusive.

JEREMY DESILVA
is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. Jeremy ('Jerry') specializes in the locomotion of the first apes and early human ancestors.  His most recent work focuses on the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage.

In this Evolution Soup Special, host MARK talks with Jerry about the various theories relating to bipedality and specifically about recent hominid discoveries Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi.

ORIGINAL VIDEO https://bit.ly/3YKu6d9


LINKS FOR JEREMY DESILVA:


SITE: https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva

TWITTER: @desilva_jerry


BOOK:

First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human: https://amzn.to/3i6xZX6


SEE ALSO:

Dartmouth College: https://home.dartmouth.edu/

Dartmouth College flyover footage by Danny Katz 

Lee Berger's Fossil Vault YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zGJ4V8


Boston Science Museum: https://www.mos.org/



EVOLUTION SOUP

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A Paleoanthropologist in a Pandemic
Jerry's Background
Upright Walking Ancestors
Why Stand Upright?
(Cont.) Upright Walking Ancestors
Sediba & Naledi
Laetoli Footprints
Jerry's Fossil Wish List
Writing 'First Steps'