Question

2 Explain how global conditions influenced the progression towards bipedal locomotion in early apes in Africa

Answer 1

Fossil evidence would thus indicate that terrestrial bipedalism emerged in the Hominoidea in the late Miocene, between approximately 10 and 5 Ma. There now also exists plentiful indirect evidence from geological and palaeoecological studies that bears on the timing of the evolution of hominid bipedalism.