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Nature 404, 339-340 (23 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35006181
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Human evolution: From forelimbs to two legs
Mark Collard1 & Leslie C. Aiello1
Abstract
A reanalysis of the wrist bones of early human fossils provides the first good evidence that humans evolved from ancestors who 'knuckle-walked', as chimps and gorillas do today.
Most people think that palaeoanthropologists spend their lives in exotic places prospecting for fossils. Not so — researchers working on human evolution generally spend most of their time in the laboratory seeking new ways of testing ideas about the existing fossil record.
- Mark Collard and Leslie C. Aiello are in the Department of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Correspondence to: Mark Collard1 e-mails: Email: m.collard@ucl.ac.uk
Correspondence to: Leslie C. Aiello1 Email: l.aiello@ucl.ac.uk
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