6-Million-Year-Old Inner Ear Fossil Offers Clues to Human Locomotion Evolution
Yunnan Province, China – Recent research on a fossilized ape’s inner ear structures is shedding light on the evolutionary steps towards human bipedalism, providing new insights into the significant roles played by the inner ear and climate change in this journey. The inner ear of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, has revealed clues about the development of human locomotion in a groundbreaking study. Scientists have long been intrigued by the question of how humans’ bipedal …