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The habit of walking on two feet. Apes can walk bipedally for short distances, but of the mammals only the hominids became fully adapted to bipedal walking.
bipedalism
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- bipedalism
- hand (in anatomy)
- human evolution
- spinal column
- ape man
- Australopithecus (in anthropology)
- pelvis
- Mary Douglas Leakey
- feet
- symmetry and asymmetry
- Hominidae II (Humans) (zoology)
- Bipedalism
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