Open ground and savannas provide faster movement over longer distances, which contributed to explain the evolution from quadruple movement to bipedal movement. Bipedalism allowed Homo sapiens to become faster, obtain wider food sources, forage, and escape climatic conditions, and create better tools and technology for survival. These advanced qualities allowed greater resource competition against coexisting species, such as the Neanderthals, outliving them in the process. The act of energy conservation in the human body can be attributed to bipedalism, because “more ground can be crossed with less energy, and this would be important in moving between widely scattered patches of trees” (MacDonald, 2003, p. 331). Our everyday stance allows us to do a variety of actions such as picking up objects, running long distances, carry food and children from place to place, and maintain balance across various terrains and platforms. With our ability of curling our hands and feet, we are able to create objects, such as tools, in practice of defense, as our ancestors have done before us to fend for themselves against wildlife and other tribes. “Once hominids came to depend on and develop tools, evolution would favor dexterity of the hands and increasing mental capability required to devise, construct, and apply tools” (MacDonald, 2003, p. 332). Due to physical and mental evolution, we are now able to analyze and project abstract and scientific thought, creating massive weapons and complex figures for the defense of, not only our individual selves, but nations world-wide, which goes hand in hand with the complex arrival of infrastructures within societies. Bipedalism attributed to the conception of modern day societies. As humans foraged and hunted, they soon came across fire, which led to cooking and a change in nourishment. Fire allowed tribes to change the way they ate what they hunted, it also helped establish the first methods of agriculture, or horticulture, using techniques like slashing and burning to cultivate land and yield
Open ground and savannas provide faster movement over longer distances, which contributed to explain the evolution from quadruple movement to bipedal movement. Bipedalism allowed Homo sapiens to become faster, obtain wider food sources, forage, and escape climatic conditions, and create better tools and technology for survival. These advanced qualities allowed greater resource competition against coexisting species, such as the Neanderthals, outliving them in the process. The act of energy conservation in the human body can be attributed to bipedalism, because “more ground can be crossed with less energy, and this would be important in moving between widely scattered patches of trees” (MacDonald, 2003, p. 331). Our everyday stance allows us to do a variety of actions such as picking up objects, running long distances, carry food and children from place to place, and maintain balance across various terrains and platforms. With our ability of curling our hands and feet, we are able to create objects, such as tools, in practice of defense, as our ancestors have done before us to fend for themselves against wildlife and other tribes. “Once hominids came to depend on and develop tools, evolution would favor dexterity of the hands and increasing mental capability required to devise, construct, and apply tools” (MacDonald, 2003, p. 332). Due to physical and mental evolution, we are now able to analyze and project abstract and scientific thought, creating massive weapons and complex figures for the defense of, not only our individual selves, but nations world-wide, which goes hand in hand with the complex arrival of infrastructures within societies. Bipedalism attributed to the conception of modern day societies. As humans foraged and hunted, they soon came across fire, which led to cooking and a change in nourishment. Fire allowed tribes to change the way they ate what they hunted, it also helped establish the first methods of agriculture, or horticulture, using techniques like slashing and burning to cultivate land and yield