---
title: Evolution
date: "2002-11-18T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1033
description: I explore the evolutionary links between bipedalism, meat-eating, and human brain size through a Scientific American article, while contrasting it with a humorous take on the trade-offs required for walking upright with a large cranium.
keywords: [bipedalism, evolutionary biology, brain size, hominid evolution, diet, scientific american, paleoanthropology]
---

An article in the Scientific American [linking two-leggedness, non-vegetarianism and our brain size](http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0007B7DC-6738-1DC9-AF71809EC588EEDF). Contrast that with this (funny) [talk.origins post on the trade-off between a large brain and two-leggedness](http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/may02.html). [via Ravikiran](http://www.ravikiran.com/?RequestId=76), [via RobotWisdom](http://www.robotwisdom.com)