Re: ELEPHANT-EATING & BIPEDAL LIZARDS

["Wes Copas" <wescopas@TENET.EDU>]

Stanley Friesen wrote:
> 
> At 12:45 PM 6/20/97 +0100, Darren Naish wrote:
> >... It has been suggested that bipedality and trunk-
> >clinging in this species are correlated.
> 
> Heck, I suspect that bipedality in the Hominoidea is related to arboreality.

Er, um, don't you mean to say "Hominidae" here?  The Hominoidea consist
of the apes (Hylobatidae and Pongidae) and the hominids...  While most
of the hominoids are part-time bipedalists, only the Hominidae are
considered to be fully bipedal, no?

Greetings to all!  I've been lurking on the list for a while now, taking
in the neat discussions and learning a lot, but there hasn't been a
whole lot that I could contribute until now.  Just wanted to say that I
enjoy the list, and look forward to more interesting discussions.

Wes Copas (pseudo-anthropologist schoolteacher who burned out from grad
school and stopped at the M.A. level, University of Arizona 1990, but
NEVER outgrew the Dinosaur Stage)