Owen Lovejoy’s Provisioning had another hypothesis over the arboreal-to-terrestrial shift and the origins of bipedalism. He believed that freeing the early hominins’ hands was very important in starting bipedal locomotion, but not for the reasons Darwin stated. Lovejoy observed that the species between monkeys and apes, males tend to compete for sexual access to females. Female mothers are the ones who take care of Young monkeys or apes without the help of the male father. Female mother’s job is to take care of their young infant and provide food, therefore they can only take care of one infant at a time. The mother has to be with the infant until he or she is able to search for food on its own, but that could take up to five years for the
