The First Humans
The Ancients
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Homo Erectus Tree Climbing Ability
There's a big debate even within us lepithecus whether they habitually would use trees for foraging and for sleeping at night in nests. I'm sort of in the other camp that indeed says all those primitive tree climbing capability features that you might see were probably maintained otherwise they would really fade out over evolutionary time. The complete dedication to what you would call habitual two-leggedness bipedalism is indeed something that we first see with Homo erectus. We also have another key early Homo species that I always seem to see in a few papers I've had a look at before this, it's Homo riddle fences.
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