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himpanzees, bonobos, and presume a chimpanzee- or gorilla-like
gorillas are our closest living BIPEDALITY ancestor to explain habitual upright
relatives. The most popular walking. Ar. ramidus was fully capable
reconstructions of human evolution Pan
of bipedality and had evolved a sub-
during the past century rested on the stantially modified pelvis and foot with
The primitive nature of the craniodental and was the CLCA’s socio-reproductive structure Possible alternative vicars are extant, K-selected
postcranial anatomies of Ar. ramidus suggest that before these events? Whereas African apes have, atelines (New World forms such as spider and
the CLCA, unlike extant African apes, was pre- in the past, almost invariably been selected as woolly monkeys), which exhibit many of the
dominantly arboreal. However, all of its descend- CLCA vicars, Ar. ramidus now allows us to infer CLCA’s likely socio-reproductive characters,
ants have since developed relatively sophisticated that they have undergone far too many pronounced including male philopatry, minimal-to-moderate
adaptations to terrestrial locomotion (23). What and divergent specializations to occupy such a role. canine dimorphism, moderate–to–possibly intense
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