CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins -Footprints Body Form and Locomotion
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- Опубліковано 29 лют 2012
- Why are we the only two-legged creature to develop an exclusively upright gait? And what did it mean to the development of the human species? CARTA brings you foremost experts to explore the many facets of these questions in this fascinating series with presentations from Brian Richmond, Carol Ward and Chris Ruff that compare different evidence and aspects of hominid body form and what those tell us about upright locomotion in hominids. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [3/2012] [Science] [Show ID: 23441]
Great discussion. I am very grateful to Mr. Richmond and his team for the exhaustive work they did to bring us these findings! These are truly men and women possessed of both passion and determination, and are a great benefit to our society. I love our scientists.
Great talks! Thank so much, UCSD, for sharing this fantastic institution's conferences online. It's wonderful to be able to access some of the findings and ongoing discussions being done by scholars in so many different fields brought together.
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Very exciting science and findings. Ward had really fascinating work. I'd love to see her with a good artist at her disposal! I'm very curious about Neanderthal ribs, as they seem to show that bell, rather than our barrel shape.
Richmond was also pretty interesting!
Good work Dr. Carol Ward.
Very interesting. That last talk in particular makes me think they probably ate and slept in trees and used their walking capability to get from tree to tree in the savanna while seeing over the grasses, looking for predators.
Also very interesting to hear that Lucy probably a more modern looking trunk.
Great video.
Great presentation...and Professor Ward has got some great cans! Thanks for posting!
great video; very interesting!
Very illustrative & interesting. Thank you for posting.
Interesting video.
Very interesting. Impressed. & mystery unsolved. When it comes to bipedalism in our ancestor, I feel awe for their survival skill, or luck (?), without being preyed upon by predators to be extinguished! I would not be alive in Africa by myself in a couple of days, if lucky.
Bipedal walking began in trees with horizontal branches, thus Primus
Humans today are still fairly adept tree climbers. ( Thought the last time I tried - I fell and landed in hospital!)
I'm 59. I climbed a tree Monday. My daughter accused me of being slow. I accused her of being in the way, hindering how fast I could climb.
The human body has adapted beautifully to bipedal activity - but, every since our eyes began to migrate to the front of our faces, was built, shaped and crafted, on the actions of 40 million odd years of tree climbing . No other activity can so comprehensively utilize every muscle, bone and sinew in the human body with such perfectly proportional distribution. :)
Not as apes go ...perhaps as canids go but a raccoon or an oppossum climbs better than we do .the feet are our weak point. No grasping digit on the feet so climbing efforts fall disproportionately on our weaker upper limbs .
Oops!!
i've seen studies of barefoot footprints over the years - done maybe by athletic studies - or for shoes - or by anthropologists - i guess they aren't widely available
27:20 "...the question of what these animals looked like." (woman speaking about early man)
Watched all of it 58:30
The logo of CARTA says a lot.
So, the funny bone is at the distal end of the humorous?
well ------- looking around ...
Great video, but I have to say, and I do not doubt Ms. Wards expertise, but I do not agree with her statement about evolution only being able to act on "last years model". if that was the case, how would new things develop? Like blue eyes for example. Isn´t a mutation a feature not previously present in the genes? Or am I misunderstanding something? And just to clarify, it is a small detail in an otherwise enjoyable, informative and interesting video :)
I don't think you are saying anything different. The mutation you reference happened on what already existed...the only caveat is that she is not talking about phenotype. Stereoscopic eyes can be blue, green, brown, etc. Eyes evolved, their different colors are just variation.
@@rafaeljimeno3863 ok, well that was just a random example, and I dont want to make that the focus of the point I was trying to make. And also Im not a scientist, I have just heard alot of things, but by my logic if evolution could only vary the things it has, how did single celled organisms ever become multicelled, thats not a variation IMO.
Habilis doesnt become sapiens.
It becomes erectus which becomes sapiens. Evolution works on the latest version.
stephen j gould wrote horses toes and hens teeth, old characteristic at times manifest all at once ,
Envaginated? Or invaginated
Why does everyone think it went from waking on four legs to two legs it didn’t work that way with many dinosaurs
lol. yes, this is a bit dry at times haha.
I’ve never climbed a tree in my life.
čo dokáže človek z opice pre peniaze klamať človeka stvoreného pre vyššie účely.
There are two bipedal apes: Homo and Hylobates. The latter needs more study.
You are forgetting Sasquatch...
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Broken Coccyx!
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I fell asleep ...
Pan Da short attention span
How would be be able to determine mans origins when the Native American Indians keep blocking excavations on remains found such as what I witnessed "Kennewick Man".