The Seven-Million-Year-Long Journey - Why Humans Stood Upright ~ with JEREMY DESILVA
Channel: Evolution Soup
Date: 2021-06-19

What caused the ancestors of human beings start walking upright? The seven-million-year-long-journey started in the trees of African 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.

#evolution #biped #humanevolution


00:00 START
00:46 A Paleoanthropologist in a Pandemic
02:16 Jerry's Background
06:50 Upright Walking Ancestors
15:22 Why Stand Upright?
23:20 Sediba & Naledi
38:12 Laetoli Footprints
46:29 Jerry's Fossil Wish List
51:33 Writing 'First Steps'



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 (https://bit.ly/2RvDxj5)

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


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


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