On topic: A Primate of Modern Aspect reviews the anatomy of the Ardipithecus proximal femur.
Clearly, we shouldn’t draw any conclusions about bipedality in Ardi from a third trochanter and hypotrochanteric fossa if even Proconsul had similar characters.
JOHN HAWKS is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I was trained as a paleoanthropologist, studying human evolution from an integrative perspective. My research focuses on the processes affecting human genetic evolution across the last 6 million years.
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