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From forelimbs to two legs

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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.

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Figure 1: Approximate time ranges of known hominid species.
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