Examples of bipedalism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web All modern birds can trace their origins to theropods, according to paleontologists, with features like plumage, bipedalism and egg-laying common to both groups. — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021 The idea that a third hominin species—in the same time and place as A. afarensis, at that—was evolving for bipedalism on its own branch of the family tree is a fascinating one. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021 If two different species were walking upright on the landscape at the same time, that suggests different simultaneous experiments in bipedalism — complicating the conventional view of human evolution as strictly linear. — Christina Larson, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2021 Other maladies may be traced back to the origin of bipedalism. — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 31 May 2021 Early species were adapted to climbing as well as bipedalism; later species had more specialized diets of tough, fibrous food. — National Geographic, 30 Jan. 2020 Explaining bipedalism Rudapithecus lived during the Miocene, a moderately warm period that ended between 8 million and 5 million years ago. — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2019 As such, any links to our own bipedalism look much less clear-cut. — Vivien Shaw, Quartz, 14 Dec. 2019 For example, orangutans use clambering, upright or horizontal climbing, suspensory swinging, and assisted bipedalism (walking upright using hands for support). — Vivien Shaw, Quartz, 14 Dec. 2019 See More

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