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Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.

Issleduet, kak prjamokhozhdenie pomoglo nam, ljudjam, podnjatsja nad vsemi vidami na etoj planete.Laureat knizhnoj premii U. U. Khauellsa ot Amerikanskoj antropologicheskoj assotsiatsiiOdna iz luchshikh estestvenno-nauchnykh knig po versii Science News.My, ljudi, - edinstvennye mlekopitajuschie, kotorye khodjat na dvukh, a ne na chetyrekh nogakh, i vosprinimaem eto kak samo soboj razumejuscheesja. My s neterpeniem zhdem pervykh shagov nashikh malyshej, no kak sdelali svoi pervye shagi nashi predki? My staraemsja vysoko derzhat golovu, no kakoj tsenoj prjamokhozhdenie dalos cheloveku?V knige "Pervye shagi" paleoantropolog Dzheremi Desilva issleduet, naskolko neobychajna eta, kazalos by, obychnaja sposobnost. Puteshestvie dlinoj v sem millionov let k samym istokam chelovecheskogo roda pokazyvaet, kak vertikalnaja khodba polozhila nachalo razvitiju tekh atributov, kotorye i delajut nas ljudmi: sposobnosti sozdavat tekhnologii, stremleniju issledovat okruzhajuschij mir, razvitiju i ispolzovaniju rechi, - i, vozmozhno, zalozhila osnovu dlja takikh chert nashego vida, kak sostradanie, vzaimopomosch, altruizm.