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Evolution of Human Walking

Features of her pelvis show that a three-million-year-old hominid, Lucy, was as adept at upright walking as we are. Bipedality could date from the earliest phase of human evolution

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 259 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “Evolution of Human Walking” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 259 No. 5 (), p. 118
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1188-118