[Adam Khor]

Originally Posted by steddyeddy

Im waiting for the day that Ginatopithecus is determined once and for all to be bipedal or quadrupedal. Both sides of the debate makes an interesting case and I myself havent made my mind up.

Or a facultative biped. It doesn´t have to be one or the other Since we don´t know its proportions, for all we know it may have been as easy for a Giganto to walk bipedally as on all fours...

[steddyeddy]

Originally Posted by Adam Khor

Or a facultative biped. It doesn´t have to be one or the other Since we don´t know its proportions, for all we know it may have been as easy for a Giganto to walk bipedally as on all fours...

Well I have no doubt it was least a faculative biped. I was thinking more obligate biped! Who knows though were a long way of knowing.

[Galvasean]

Originally Posted by steddyeddy

Im waiting for the day that Ginatopithecus is determined once and for all to be bipedal or quadrupedal. Both sides of the debate makes an interesting case and I myself havent made my mind up.

I know the feeling. I keep hearing it was ten foot tall, but that is in relation to biped and quadruped!

[Adam Khor]

Originally Posted by Galvasean

I know the feeling. I keep hearing it was ten foot tall, but that is in relation to biped and quadruped!

Well, modern day apes don´t really add much to their height when they rear up, mostly because of their proportions, so I guess the three meter tall figure is assuming they had similar proportions to their modern relatives? If it had been an obligate biped I would expect it to have longer legs and thus be even taller than currently believed!