Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 22, 2004 @01:17PM from the upright-citizens-brigade dept.

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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dogs too by jford235 · 2004-07-22 13:21 · Score: 1, Redundant

although not the result of disease, this dog can also walk upright.
Re:One thing is for sure... by allism · 2004-07-22 13:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

This could be emphasized by the speculation in the article that this macaque's bipedalism is CAUSED by brain damage...

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Re:One thing is for sure... by Greenisloved · 2004-07-22 16:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

"So, we are similar to monkeys, but mainly the brain damaged ones? ;)"
so where do u fit in brain damage diseases like Azhemiers ,Brain Cancer ???

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