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Evolution of the Knuckle Walker
Human evolution wasn't linear like it is presented in that image. There were all these different evolutionary experiments going on. Many different forms of bipeedle walking evolving in contemporary ancestors and extinct relatives of ours. One possibility is that we didn't evolve from a knuckle walker. We never went through a knuckle walking phase at all, according to jeremy. Knuckle walking is actually a relatively new form of locomotion that evolved in champanzes and in gerillas from an ancestor that was actually a little more upright than us.
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