bipedalism has been traditionally viewed as?
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Bipedalism traditionally has been viewed as an adaptation to open grassland or savanna country. However, to refer to the taxonomic family that includes humans and the African apes and their immediate ancestors.
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Running obviously existed before the 1960s. But the specific practice of recreational jogging on sidewalks and roads for exercise was unheard of in the United States up to that point. Serious athletes did it before then, but normal people didn't. Credit for introducing the concept probably goes to Bill Bowerman.
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Origin. The style was popularized by skaters and hip-hop artists in the 1990s. It later became a symbol of freedom and cultural awareness among some youths or a symbol of their rejection of the values of mainstream society.
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Departing from Karl Jaspers's prominent conception of the 800–200 BCE as the Axial Age, the author argues that from the late 15th century and especially from the mid-18th century up to now the world is experiencing the second Axial Age, that is a new period of radical change of the whole human culture paradigm.
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The reason is basically the same. We have our dog's heel to our left because this is a right handed world. Going back in time to the olden days, back when the real men wore swords, it was necessary to mount horses from the left side for safety purposes. ... So the dog is traditionally heeled /walked on the left.
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During the classical period the Greek artists replaced the stiff vertical figures of the archaic period with three-dimensional snap shots of figures in action. While the archaic sculptures appeared static the classical statues held dynamic poses bursting with potential energy.
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In the Archaic, statues were rigid, resembling the Egyptians. In the Classical period, sculpting was relaxed and became more graceful and less rigid, and new orders of columns were made. As the Classical moved to the Hellenistic, the sculpting was even more life-like than the Classical, and movement was more common.
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Compared to a wheeled robot, a bipedal robot can move in a variety of surfaces and can also use tools & environments meant for humans. Compared to robots with more legs, these can use their limbs more effectively for carrying & using tools. The disadvantages are that these are more complex, slow and less stable.
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There's no evidence to prove that ancestry determines the shape of your foot. Human feet are highly individual. Your right foot and your left foot aren't even identical. The angle of your toe descent or the length of your second toe doesn't reveal either your heritage or your personality traits.
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Humans are bipedal, and except for short bouts of uprightness, great apes walk on all fours. It's a profound disparity. Kevin Hunt, director of the Human Origins and Primate Evolution Lab at Indiana University, thinks humans' ancestors stood upright in order to reach vegetation in low-hanging tree branches.
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The theropod (meaning "beast-footed") dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs. ... What most people think of as theropods (e.g., T. rex, Deinonychus) are extinct today, but recent studies have conclusively shown that birds are actually the descendants of small nonflying theropods.
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Gardner's concept of bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is most likely to be criticized for: extending the definition of intelligence to an overly broad range of skills or talents. Those who define intelligence as academic aptitude are most likely to criticize: Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences.
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The Laetoli footprints provide a clear snapshot of an early hominin bipedal gait that probably involved a limb posture that was slightly but significantly different from our own, and these data support the hypothesis that important evolutionary changes to hominin bipedalism occurred within the past 3.66 Myr.
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All anthropologists are cultural absolutists. Because a view in one culture is different from another does not mean that neither view is right or wrong. One problem with relativism, according to the author of the text, is that it does not enable us to be critical. There is only one typer of moral proposition.
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['individualism. showed individual people instead of groups.', 'secularism. fewer church paintings.', 'classicism. classic Roman and Greek influence.', 'Nature. depicted the outdoors.', 'anatomy. focused on defined and precise human anatomy.', 'linear perspective. ... ', 'realism. ... ', 'depth.']
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Is a pig a biped of a quadruped? They are quadruped because they walk on all four legs.
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A biped is an animal with two feet. A quadruped is "An animal which has four feet. (Usually confined to mammals, and excluding four-footed reptiles.) " From the OED.