First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seemingly ordinary ability is. A seven-million-year journey to the very origins of the human lineage, Fir…

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