Walk like an australopithecine

It's a little dated, but here's an episode of the old TLC show PaleoWorld about hominid posture and bipedalism;







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I have several episodes of "Paleo World" on video tape, but not this particular one. In addition to peddling outdated ideas like bipedalism in hominids being related to climate change, have you noticed how cheesy the costumes are on these shows? The australopithecines look like rejects from "Planet Of The Apes"! They'd do better using Gurche's or Matterne's art to illustrate human evolution, so people could follow the story, not be distracted by the shitty "ape" suits.

By Raymond Minton (not verified) on 27 Mar 2009 #permalink