{"id":40813,"date":"2011-05-19T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11822"},"modified":"2011-05-19T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:12:05","slug":"fashionable-bipedalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/19\/fashionable-bipedalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashionable bipedalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/05\/Popeye-floor-flusher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11823\" title=\"Popeye-floor-flusher\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/05\/Popeye-floor-flusher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=bipedalism&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ncl=dFn65omsARGmAtMnMAKIgnHRqPZhM&amp;ei=hnTVTb6jNY3QiAKb85iJBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=news_result&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=2&amp;ved=0CDMQqgIwAQ\">new story<\/a> blowing up in the media about the origins of bipedalism through male-male competition. The hook is good enough that the headlines write themselves. For example, io9 has a sober and skeptical review of the paper, but the title is naturally going to be more excitement inducing:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5802921\/did-early-humans-start-standing-upright-because-it-was-easier-to-beat-each-other-up\">Did early humans start standing upright so they could beat each other up?<\/a> And I&#8217;m not going to get into what British tabloids are saying about this. This is a <em>sexy<\/em> story, I can&#8217;t really blame anyone. The original research is in PLoS ONE, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0019630\">read it yourself<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0019630\">The Advantage of Standing Up to Fight and the Evolution of Habitual Bipedalism in Hominins<\/a>. The conclusion is short and sweet: <em>These results indicate that bipedal posture does provide a performance advantage for striking with the forelimbs. The mating systems of great apes are characterized by intense male-male competition in which conflict is resolved through force or the threat of force. Great apes often fight from bipedal posture, striking with both the fore- and hindlimbs. These observations, plus the findings of this study, suggest that sexual selection contributed to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new story blowing up in the media about the origins of bipedalism through male-male competition. The hook is good enough that the headlines write themselves. For example, io9 has a sober and skeptical review of the paper, but the title &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,4,82,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bipedal","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-human-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40924,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40813\/revisions\/40924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}