Hominiform Progression
In the Video:
- Dramatic video on the evolution of movement in the hominiforms - apes and humans.
- A baby siamang ape teaches himself to walk bipedally like his parents and humans show off their arm swinging.
- Chimp and Gorilla knuckle walking and orangutan four limbed clmbing as well as the future of human movement are also explored.
- How apes and humans carry their infants and children as they move.
A 25 minute video produced and directed
by Aaron G. Filler, MD, PhD,
evolutionary biologist and author of
- See the 1 minute trailer
- Low Res: See it NOW on Google Video or in three segments on You Tube
- Medium Res: Download from iTunes as a Podcast
- High Res: See Download Instructions below
- 1 - Download the 260 MB file in m4v format from this website
- (this takes a while even with fast broadband so be patient).
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- 2 - Download/View in compressed form from Vuze high res video site