When Did We Leave the Trees? - A Foot in Both Worlds ~ with PROFESSOR KRISTIAN CARLSON

When did our ancestors come down from the trees? PROFESSOR KRISTIAN CARLSON is a biological anthropologist and functional morphologist at Pennsylvania State University. Just recently, September 2026, Professor Carlson and his team published research which zeroes in on the timeframe when our earliest ancestors had abandoned the trees in favour of upright walking – and they did this by studying the bones of the famed ‘Littlefoot’ and Dmanisi fossils. 0:00 START 02:22 Kristian's background 05:35 Overview of the research 07:37 The Little Foot fossil 15:00 The Dmanisi fossils 19:51 Coming down from the trees 31:19 Upcoming projects 34:14 Special Thanks To... LINKS FOR KRISTIAN CARLSON: Keck School of Medicine Profile: https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/k... Keck School of Medicine: https://keck.usc.edu/ Pennsylvania State University | Penn State https://www.psu.edu/ RESEARCH Proportional limb strengths signal an adaptive shift in arboreality in early human evolution https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... Sterkfontein Caves technicians & preparators (re: Littlefoot fossil) https://sajs.co.za/index.php/sajs/en/... Cognitive correlates of human endurance https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... ARTICLES Study of bone strength reveals new clues about human evolution https://bit.ly/47sLVDf FOOTAGE 'Welch Building at Penn State' via Penn State College of the Liberal Arts Keck School of Medicine of USC Medical Education Overview via Keck School of Medicine of USC MUSIC Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/: Epic Action Trailer by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Battle https://www.purple-planet.com Interviews powered by https://streamyard.com/ #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleo #paleontology #paleoartist #Homosapiens #hominid #artwork #Darwin #cave #bone #fossils #Neanderthal #australopithecus #hominin #extinct #animals #science #anthropology #paleoanthropology #genus #species #africa #skull #skulls #naturalselection #lucy #paleontology #littlefoot --------------- SUBSCRIBE to Evolution Soup: http://bit.ly/2pUOYSb FOLLOW Evolution Soup Instagram & Twitter! @evolution_soup BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/evolutionsou... Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@evolution_soup SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast! http://evolutionsoup.buzzsprout.com [RSS feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/354743.rss] Music: www.purple-planet.com EVOLUTION SOUP SHIRTS, HATS AND OTHER MERCH! Shop at Redbubble store! https://www.redbubble.com/people/evol... Fourthwall Store: https://bit.ly/3B2XqUZ In association with Talk Beliefs YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/2lA6YOv DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Creative Commons.