[OT] Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal

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“Add another bonus point for the Darwinians/evolutionists. A macaque at the Safari Park Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel has recovered from a near-fatal illness in an unusual way: she has switched exclusively to walking on her hind legs . Given theories of human history that stress the effect of disease on events and changes, as in William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples , what if an illness was the cause of the shift to bipedal motion by our evolutionary ancestors, and rote imitation by offspring or another set of circumstances locked it in? No matter, this could be a fascinating study of the macaque's altered brain functions."

Coming up on next week's episode  - The macaque catches a cold and starts a weblog, in which she talks about her idol David Hasselhoff the singer.