What caused the ancestors of human beings start walking upright? The seven-million-year-long-journey started in the trees of Africa and culminates in Homo sapiens dominance of the globe. But the answers to 'why' and 'when' are still elusive.
JEREMY DESILVA is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. Jeremy ('Jerry') specializes in the locomotion of the first apes and early human ancestors. His most recent work focuses on the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage.

In this Evolution Soup Special, host MARK talks with Jerry about the various theories relating to bipedality and specifically about recent hominid discoveries Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi.

ORIGINAL VIDEO https://bit.ly/3YKu6d9

LINKS FOR JEREMY DESILVA:

SITE: https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva

TWITTER: @desilva_jerry

BOOK:

First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human: https://amzn.to/3i6xZX6

SEE ALSO:

Dartmouth College: https://home.dartmouth.edu/

Dartmouth College flyover footage by Danny Katz

Lee Berger's Fossil Vault YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zGJ4V8

Boston Science Museum: https://www.mos.org/

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