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Monkey foot flexibility challenges assumptions about human evolution

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not previously recognize, a discovery that challenges key assumptions about the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees and how it moved.

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Monkey foot flexibility challenges assumptions about human evolution
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Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not previously recognize, a discovery that challenges key assumptions about the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees and how it moved.