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This tableau demolishes one aspect of what had been conventional evolutionary wisdom. Paleoanthropologists once thought that what got our ancestors walking on two legs in the first place was a change in climate that transformed African forest into savanna. In such an environment, goes the reasoning, upright-standing primates would have had the advantage over knuckle walkers because they could see over tall grasses to find food and avoid predators. The fact that Lucy's species sometimes lived in a more wooded environment began to undermine that theory. The fact that Ardi walked upright in a similar environment many hundreds...
...which belonged to at least 35 Ar. ramidus individuals. Combine those bones with the thousands of plant and animal fossils from the site and they get a remarkably clear picture of the habitat Ardi roamed some 200,000 generations ago. It was a grassy woodland with patches of denser forest and freshwater springs. Colobus monkeys chattered in the trees, while baboons, elephants, spiral-horned antelopes and hyenas roamed the terrain. Shrews, hares, porcupines and small carnivores scuttled in the underbrush. There were an assortment of bats and at least 29 species of birds, including peacocks, doves, lovebirds, swifts and owls...
Luke Norman and Zack Schilawski each attempted a team-high two shots for Wake Forest...
...Demon Deacons’ offensive output for the game was unmatched by Harvard, as Wake Forest outshot the Crimson men, 10-7. Harvard, however, managed to produce out six of the seven shots on goal in the second half of the contest...
Both teams earned five corner kicks apiece. Four out of five Crimson corner kicks came in the first half while Wake Forest matched that with four corner kicks in the second frame...