Humans evolved bipedalism due to specific environmental pressures
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 79/100
Multiple studies support the hypothesis that environmental pressures, such as the spread of open habitats and changing landscapes, drove the evolution of hominin bipedalism.
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Hominin musical sound production: palaeoecological contexts and self domestication
2024 · cited by 4
The paper discusses how early bipedal hominins transitioned into more open habitats with increased predation risk, linking environmental changes to locomotion.
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The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion: what can we learn from landscapes of fear and primate terrestriality?
2025 · cited by 2
The paper explores how shifts in Plio-Pleistocene landscapes and perceived predation risk acted as key selection pressures driving primate and hominin terrestriality.
Out of Afar: the first hominin migration? Long-term landscape changes in the Afar region and implications for hominin bipedalism
2025 · cited by 0
The study highlights how landscape changes, tectonic events, and ecological pressures in the Afar region provided a context for the evolution of bipedalism.
Savanna tree evolutionary ages inform the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment of our hominin ancestors.
2020 · cited by 0
The paper supports the idea that the expansion of open savanna habitats generated selection for traits such as bipedalism in human ancestors.