Essay On Sahelanthropus

When looking back on the evolution of man nothing stands out more than the word “bipedalism” this is what kicked us off the ledge to start us on the path of walking upright completely and gave us the dominated figure we all have today. Now let’s take it from the beginning the earliest forms of human beings used to climb tress and would walk on the ground, this use of flexibility allowed early humans to get around in such diverse habitats and also to be able to cope with the many changing climates (Smithsonian Museum). But something happened about 6 million years ago it is shown in the oldest evidence that the first of the earliest humans to become bipedal was known was, Sahelanthropus. It is said that being that Sahelanthropus could walk upright …show more content…
Hip support came late around 1.95 million years ago with the size and also the broad shape of these hip bones of that of Homo erectus are very similar to those of modern humans, this shows that this early form of human species completely stopped climbing to take on full bipedalism as way of getting around. Its till 1.9 millions years ago that early specie of man became fully bipedal with the pelvic and also the thigh bones from the specie of Homo erectus are similar to those of modern humans, this showed that Homo erectus would be able to walk long distances. This ability aloud a very big advantage during this period in time. Then finally around 1.89 million years ago we see that Homo erectus had long thigh bones that allowed them to walks faster and great lengths than earlier humans (Smithsonian