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bipedality - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
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noun bipedal ; bipedalism
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I think carrying is the most plausible precursor for bipedality .
Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way 2010
Dr. TACHERRY: You know, bipedality , walking on two legs.
Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way 2010
Dr. TACHERRY: You know, bipedality , walking on two legs.
Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way 2010
I think carrying is the most plausible precursor for bipedality .
Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way 2010
Their bipedality is dramatically confirmed by the poignantly evocative set of footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in fossilized volcanic ash.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
In rhamphorhynchoids, the hindlimbs were connected at the ankle by a large cruropatagium, so bipedality is out of the question.
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
Other palaeoanthropologists are sceptical of the claims to bipedality that have been made on behalf of Orrorin and Sahelanthropus by their discoverers.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
That's why there is still a DEBATE over the wing morphology, hence the assumption "bipedality is out of the question" carries a HUGE burden-of-proof with it.
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
Their bipedality is dramatically confirmed by the poignantly evocative set of footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in fossilized volcanic ash.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
Other palaeoanthropologists are sceptical of the claims to bipedality that have been made on behalf of Orrorin and Sahelanthropus by their discoverers.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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