ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Knuckle-Walking
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Gibbons have long arms and travel through branches. They have curved fingers so they can hook on to branches. Both chimps and gorillas use knuckle walking, they put alot of their weight on their knuckles. Its been assumed that our ancestors also walked like chimps. We have long legs and have modification in our body. Bipeds have much more forward frams in magnum in bipeds. The angle of the femur has angled down so that it much more straight when standing and the knees lock down. Another major change pelvis its aligned in chimps and the bipeds have straight.
