Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being two-footed.
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- noun The condition of being
bipedal ;bipedalism
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Examples
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I think carrying is the most plausible precursor for bipedality.
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Dr. TACHERRY: You know, bipedality, walking on two legs.
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Dr. TACHERRY: You know, bipedality, walking on two legs.
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I think carrying is the most plausible precursor for bipedality.
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Their bipedality is dramatically confirmed by the poignantly evocative set of footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in fossilized volcanic ash.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In rhamphorhynchoids, the hindlimbs were connected at the ankle by a large cruropatagium, so bipedality is out of the question.
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
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Other palaeoanthropologists are sceptical of the claims to bipedality that have been made on behalf of Orrorin and Sahelanthropus by their discoverers.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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That's why there is still a DEBATE over the wing morphology, hence the assumption "bipedality is out of the question" carries a HUGE burden-of-proof with it.
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
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Their bipedality is dramatically confirmed by the poignantly evocative set of footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in fossilized volcanic ash.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Other palaeoanthropologists are sceptical of the claims to bipedality that have been made on behalf of Orrorin and Sahelanthropus by their discoverers.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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