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AUniversity of Calgary researcher is helping to rewrite the (pre-)history books when it comes to how and where apes lived in eastern Africa millions of years ago.A team of international researchers, Research on East African Catarrhine and Hominoid Ev
Because the timing of the assembly of Africa’s grassland habitats underlies many evolutionary hypotheses, our discovery that they existed much earlier than expected calls for a recalibration of those ideas.
Anthropologists have long thought that our ape ancestors evolved an upright torso in order to pick fruit in forests, but new research from the University of Michigan suggests a life in open woodlands and a diet that included leaves drove apes' upright stature.
"Putting together the locomotion, the diet, and the environment, we basically discovered a new model for ape origins."
This may have driven the evolution of upright apes