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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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
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/evolutionsoup
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evolutionsoup/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/evolutionsoup/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evolution_soup/
RSS feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/354743.rss
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify