Episode 224 - Bipedalism

Most vertebrate animals on land get around on all fours, but some of us have committed to two-legged locomotion. This episode, we explore the various ways animals have evolved bipedalism and the many benefits that come with it. We’ll also take a look at how we identify bipedal animals in the fossil record, and we’ll zoom in on the evolutionary story behind Earth history’s most successful bipeds.

In the news: potato origins, trilobite legs, bone worm burrows, and australopithecine sexes.

Time markers:

Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00

News: 00:07:35

Main discussion, Part 1: 00:35:15

Main discussion, Part 2: 01:10:50

Patron question: 02:05:55

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The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at ocremix.org

Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0