Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal

Freshly Exhumed writes "Add another bonus point for the Darwinians/evolutionists. A macaque at the Safari Park Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel has recovered from a near-fatal illness in an unusual way: she has switched exclusively to walking on her hind legs. Given theories of human history that stress the effect of disease on events and changes, as in William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples, what if an illness was the cause of the shift to bipedal motion by our evolutionary ancestors, and rote imitation by offspring or another set of circumstances locked it in? No matter, this could be a fascinating study of the macaque's altered brain functions."

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Re:Score another one for creationists

[eddy]

After all look at the God

Kind of hard, since it doesn't exist. And hey, even the Book of Fairy Tales And Floating Axes say that no man has seen the face of gawd, right?

Could we please moderate the creationists -1, Dumbass and move on?

I seem to remember one hypothesis about hindwalking in monkeys being water. Apparently they will 'wade' through streams and other bodies of water on their hind legs only. Doing this in water offloads some stress on their bodies, which differs significantly from ours in respect to the position of the legs/knees, pelvis and spine.