Being bipedal doesn't make you human. What role did bipedalism play in our evolution?

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🟢 CounterEvolution is a podcast about alternative scenarios for human development, published on the website https://www.t-invariant.org/
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"How did we become like this, and what would have happened if not for...?"

✅ In episode 15 of the CounterEvolution podcast, Alexander Markov and Olga Orlova decided to discuss what would have happened to humanity if humans had not become upright and remained quadrupedal, like apes.

Would we have been able to become intelligent, invent digital clocks, and build Rome or New York back then?

Or did we have to stand up on our hind legs to become intelligent and become human? "No, that's not the most important thing in human development," says Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Markov. "So parents of quad bikes shouldn't be too upset."

🟢 CounterEvolution is a podcast about alternative scenarios for human development. It seems something has gone wrong with humanity. They know a lot, they can do a lot, but they continue to destroy each other and don't understand the most basic things about each other. Two hosts—biologist Alexander Markov and science journalist and editor-in-chief of T-invariant Olga Orlova—decided to discuss how modern humans acquired certain traits, and what they would be like today if they had developed differently or lost some of their original abilities.