New research suggests upright walking helps human creativity in several ways including with music, rhythm, and communication.

Upright walking required profound changes in anatomy ... an anatomist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in early human studies. He and Dr. Meave Leakey, a paleontologist at the ...

His ribcage and shoulder girdle indicate that he could swing his arms when walking or running ... more like a modern human baby. This in turn suggests that his species must have been able to ...

The fact that humans walk on two legs is likely the reason we have developed our rhythmic, musical, and linguistic abilities, ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Some funny-looking apes approach, walking upright ... Our team's research modeled the anatomy of these early humans, ...