{"id":2703,"date":"2011-05-22T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:20:06","slug":"punchline-in-story-of-bipedalism-our-ancestors-stood-up-to-fight-humans-evolution-bipedalism-livescience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2011\/05\/22\/punchline-in-story-of-bipedalism-our-ancestors-stood-up-to-fight-humans-evolution-bipedalism-livescience\/","title":{"rendered":"Punchline in Story of Bipedalism: Our Ancestors Stood Up to Fight | Humans, Evolution &amp; Bipedalism | LiveScience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, humans only walk upright because it&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/14223-tall-men-punching-evolution-bipedalism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made us better fighters<\/a>. Seems counter-intuitive given the knuckle-dragging bullies out there today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then again, given our proclivity to violence, it makes perfect sense. I mean, we wouldn&#8217;t have gotten to the moon without trying really, really hard to kill ourselves in new ways during World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, humans only walk upright because it&nbsp;made us better fighters. Seems counter-intuitive given the knuckle-dragging bullies out there today. Then again, given our proclivity to violence, it makes perfect sense. I mean, we wouldn&#8217;t have gotten to the moon without trying really, really hard to kill ourselves in new ways during World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments-and-observations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}