{"id":35497,"date":"2011-05-22T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fashionable-bipedalism-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:45","slug":"fashionable-bipedalism-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fashionable-bipedalism-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Fashionable bipedalism | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/42e96_Popeye-floor-flusher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11823\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/42e96_Popeye-floor-flusher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"265\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>There&rsquo;s a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=bipedalism&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ncl=dFn65omsARGmAtMnMAKIgnHRqPZhM&amp;ei=hnTVTb6jNY3QiAKb85iJBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=news_result&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=2&amp;ved=0CDMQqgIwAQ\">new story<\/a> blowing up in the media about the origins of bipedalism through male-male competition. The hook is good enough that the headlines write themselves. For example, io9 has a sober and skeptical review of the paper, but the title is naturally going to be more excitement inducing:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5802921\/did-early-humans-start-standing-upright-because-it-was-easier-to-beat-each-other-up\">Did early humans start standing upright so they could beat each other up?<\/a> And I&rsquo;m not going to get into what British tabloids are saying about this. This is a <em>sexy<\/em> story, I can&rsquo;t really blame anyone. The original research is in PLoS ONE, so <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0019630\">read it yourself<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0019630\">The Advantage of Standing Up to Fight and the Evolution of Habitual Bipedalism in Hominins<\/a>. The conclusion is short and sweet: <em>These results indicate that bipedal posture does provide a performance advantage for striking with the forelimbs. The mating systems of great apes are characterized by intense male-male competition in which conflict is resolved through force or the threat of force. Great apes often fight from bipedal posture, striking with both the fore- and hindlimbs. These observations, plus the findings of this study, suggest that sexual selection contributed to ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/42e96_D38_Svs3rCc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/42e96_Ql9z4tMkbWw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s a new story blowing up in the media about the origins of bipedalism through male-male competition. The hook is good enough that the headlines write themselves. For example, io9 has a sober and skeptical review of the paper, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fashionable-bipedalism-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}