knuckle-walking

Our earliest primate ancestors were no exception, whether moving in trees or knuckle-walking on the ground.

Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way 2010

Our earliest primate ancestors were no exception, whether moving in trees or knuckle-walking on the ground.

Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way 2010

Lovejoy's analysis also shows that the bones in Ardi's hands and wrists were not adapted to knuckle-walking, a style of movement common to gorillas and chimpanzees, and assumed to have been used by the species that was ancestral to apes and humans.

Catch a Pithecus by the Toe 2010

Rather, Sen McCaskill knows that Missouri has a governor's election this go around and does not want to see Jay Nixon (D) get trounced by Matt Blunt (R - think 'GW Bush on a smaller scale') because Clinton's name on the ticket brings every knuckle-walking troglodyte out of the caves of southern and central Missouri to vote against Clinton (and for Blunt while they are at it).

Poll: McCain, Hillary Gain Sizable National Leads 2009

I refer of course to the tragedy of Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee (former spokes-monkey for Old Navy and Coca-Cola), brought down in a blaze of bullets as he took his last knuckle-walking stand.

Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!! 2009

N. C.'s Republican party is loaded with precisely the kind of knuckle-walking club thumpers who hate McCain for his "liberalness" and, among those who aren't, there is a lot of concern about his temper.

Poll: Obama Might Have Shot At Flipping North Carolina 2009

If Clinton is the nominee, every knuckle-walking troglodyte in the state will crawl out of the swamps to march to the polls and voted against hated "Hellary Clit-on" (I saw that name on a bumper sticker parked in front of a Mexican restaurant in Panama City Beach when I was visiting my aunt in Florida last year).

Kansas Governor Confirms It: She's Endorsing Obama 2009

Rather, Sen McCaskill knows that Missouri has a governor's election this go around and does not want to see Jay Nixon (D) get trounced by Matt Blunt (R - think 'GW Bush on a smaller scale') because Clinton's name on the ticket brings every knuckle-walking troglodyte out of the caves of southern and central Missouri to vote against Clinton (and for Blunt while they are at it).

Poll: McCain, Hillary Gain Sizable National Leads 2009

By walking upright over four million years ago, the earliest hominids were already on an evolutionary track separate from even chimps and gorillas, our nearest genetic cousins, who locomote with a different kind of gait known as knuckle-walking.

Deepak Chopra: What We Don't Know Is Thrilling 2009

Clinton's candidacy will draw every last knuckle-walking troglodyte out of the swamps to vote against hated "Hellary" and Obama's candidacy will mobilize the Klan vote.

Report: Florida Sen. Bill Nelson Will Endorse Hillary 2009