Extinct ape’s inner ear holds clues to how humans learned to walk upright
An artist’s reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. This extinct primate lived in East Asia during the Miocene. Illustration by Xiaocong Guo. Image courtesy of Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesNew 3D scans of a six-million-year-old Lufengpithecus’ skull fossil clarify a potential evolutionary step towards bipedal locomotion…
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