Summary

Rhianna Drummond-Clarke, PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute (Dept. of Human Origins), joins the show to discuss her most recent article examining how environments affect chimp locomotion. She also chat about her time in the field.

See her article here: https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.add9752 

Recommendations

• Rhianna Drummond-Clarke’s Max Planck Institute profile page
• Rhianna C. Drummond-Clarke et al. (2022). Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism. Sci. Adv. 8,eadd9752.
• Ed. by Muller MN, RW Wrangham, DR Pilbeam. (2017). Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Belknap Press.
• DeSilva J. (2022). First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. Harper Collins.
• Thorpe SK, Crompton RH. Orangutan positional behavior and the nature of arboreal locomotion in Hominoidea. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Nov;131(3):384-401.
• The Infinite Monkey Cage (podcast)