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You might take it for granted, but the human ability to walk on two legs is pretty special. It's been argued that basically everything we can do today stems back to the time our ancestors decided to start walking upright, so researchers want to know everything we can about it. And here's the story of how one tiny fossil toe from a hominin called Ardipithecus ramidus upended decades of research into bipedalism.
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You might take it for granted, but the human ability to walk on two legs is pretty special. It's been argued that basically everything we can do today stems back to the time our ancestors decided to start walking upright, so researchers want to know everything we can about it. And here's the story of how one tiny fossil toe from a hominin called Ardipithecus ramidus upended decades of research into bipedalism.
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