Summary

Dr. Jeremy DeSilva of Dartmouth joins the show to discuss bipedalism — why anthropologists are obsessed with it and how it might have come to be. 

Recommendations

• Dr. DeSilva’s website
• DeSilva J. (2022). First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. Harper Collins.
• 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.
• DeSilva, J. (2022). Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism. Sci Am. Nov 22.
• Saini, A. (2023). The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality. Beacon Press.
• Miller, L. (2021). Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life. Simon & Schuster.
• Ian Tattersall’s books
• American Association of Biological Anthropologists job board
• Saini, A. (2020). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.
• Saini, A. (2018). Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story. Beacon Press.