Re: When we became bipedal

On 2.7.2024. 5:46, JTEM wrote:

  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

         Because you don't know

 I know that the oldest supposed Chimp fossil is *Way*
younger than humans. And the retrovirus evidence
really does support a split around 4 million years
ago or less. And it supports the notion that our
ancestors weren't in Africa at the time.

Ah, you know sooo much. Apes were the predominant species in canopy in Miocene, and at that time the whole life was in canopy, as far as I know, because the whole world was forested, there were no meadows. During Vallesian crisis all those Miocene apes went extinct. Except for our relatives and ancestors. Today apes still live on trees, SE Asian apes live in canopy.
So, you are telling me what? That our ancestors survived Miocene carnage only to move back onto trees? No, apes survived only in rain forests, where people don't live. When our ancestors emerged open environment emerged, everybody tells you that.
So, first you had bipedal ancestors, then what? Suddenly those bipeds decided to climb trees. Don't you say. Today's apes are the survived remnants of Miocene apes. We are bipeds, Danuvius (11.6 mya) is a biped. Where your brain collides with the facts?