• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    Actually, I believe current thinking is that we came from grassland, hence the advantage of upright walking.

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      1 month ago

      Depends on how far you go back. Grasslands came after jungles/forests.

      Based on some of our traits (nose shape good for diving, can control our breathing voluntarily, fingers get more grippy when wet, lack of fur), we might have even been semi-aquatic for a while.

      • Poplar?@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Source on the semi-aquatic part? Looking it up only brings up the aquatic ape hypothesis which is pseudoscience.