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Five siblings from Turkey who can only walk on all fours could provide science with an insight into human evolution, researchers have said.
The three sisters and two brothers could yield clues to why our ancestors made the transition from four-legged to two-legged animals, says a UK expert. But Professor Nicholas Humphrey rejects the idea that there is a "gene" for bipedalism, or upright walking.
He added that calluses pictured on the hands of one family member demonstrated that the behaviour was not a hoax.
This new it have been published here (media loves sensationalism everywhere). I wonder if you can link these anomaly with the past or more with the future (difficult to treat feet if you are unable to keep an upright position ).
When I first read this article, I thought it might have related to some of the blue-shirted individuals that were seen departing the bars around Barcelona and Villreal these past few nights, but then I realised that the people featured didn’t walk on their knuckles but on the palm of their hands, so news indeed!
In Scotland, on the way to her wedding, the bride (or her father) traditionally throws a handful of coins for children to gather, when she leaves her house for the last time as a single woman. This is called a ‘skoo-root’ and in the ensuing rammy, children with the ability to manoeuvre on all fours inevitably come out best. Perhaps the Turks are just one (or two) steps ahead of the game?
When I first read this article, I thought it might have related to some of the blue-shirted individuals that were seen departing the bars around Barcelona and Villreal these past few nights, but then I realised that the people featured didn’t walk on their knuckles but on the palm of their hands, so news indeed!
Well if you can not enjoy your team's play, you can enjoy your beer!
Scientists regard scepticism as their professional duty; not one who has visited the Ulas family believes they are perpetrating a hoax. “The best dramatist could not have invented this family,” says Professor Nicholas Humphrey, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics whose visits were filmed for the BBC documentary.
The family has captivated the world’s media because of the possibility that they are “living fossils”, flesh-and-blood genetic throwbacks to an ancestral creature that, four million years ago, roamed the Earth on all fours, later pulled itself upright and eventually evolved into us. The medical literature contains very rare and controversial reports of babies born with small tails at the base of their spines, and children with excessively hairy faces — such reports suggest that genetic defects can cause the most recent adaptations in our DNA to be peeled away, allowing an ancient gene to resurface and remind us, spectacularly, of our animal origins. A trait that reappears after a long absence is called an atavism.
Five Turkish siblings who walk on all fours have astonished scientists. What is their life like? They sit quietly, knees hugged to their chests, on the porch of their whitewashed one-storey house. Then, one by one, the five young adults shuffle away. They grasp at the stone steps with calloused palms, bottoms high in the air, and descend on all fours.
On level ground they continue to move with ease, swinging fluidly across the wasted earth that surrounds their home, without once drawing themselves upright. This is how they walk — like animals, unlike people — and this is why they remain outcasts in their remote Turkish village, where the children taunt them and throw stones and some fearful neighbours look upon them as an affront to Allah.
Turkish podiatrists have double workload.
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