A review by colinandersbrodd
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva

5.0

Having recently read Fossil Men, much of which turns upon when exactly bipedalism and upright locomotion first evolved in hominins, this book was especially fascinating, positing that the evidence now suggests that the formulation above may be putting it wrong - that bipedalism may have already evolved and been established in the last common ancestor of hominins and apes, and that the question is not when hominins evolved bipedalism, but when apes evolved away from it. Really fascinating stuff.