How To Use Biped In A Sentence

Leah then re-entered again bipedally and grabbed the straight branch in front of her with her right hand. 2009 January | Netflow Developments
Australopithecus postcranial skeletons demonstrate that these forms were upright bipeds.
Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae. Archive 2006-01-01
This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
We take the geometry method to derive the inverse kinematics and the center of pressure (COP) of the biped robot.

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They add that these evolutionary fixes do not ward off an array of problems that arise from our biped stance.
An opposing camp argues that bipedalism is simply the most energy-efficient way for a hominid to get around on a flat surface.
A patrol of bipedal Inorganics moved past the alley where the scientist and his assistant waited.
Some will come as a surprise, like the early small-brained bipedal hominids.
If God is a product of evolution, like bipedalism and tool making, well, the jig's up and not just for evangelicals. Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals
Thus, bipedality of terrestrial theropods and birds must be convergent, and all hindlimb, pelvis, and tail characters can be discounted.
bipedalism made the human form of birth possible
But bipedalism in birds is a highly specialized form of bipedal motion; the large tails of birds' ancestors, which in crocodilians still anchor the leg muscles, have mostly vanished in birds.
In an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.
I admire the way they blur the line between biped and quadruped. Times, Sunday Times
They acted more like huge flightless birds of prey, than the overgrown bipedal lizards of popular imagination.
We, as bipeds, creatures with two legs, move with bipedal locomotion.
Thus, these strange quadrupeds were made into bipeds.
Further changes must have affected the hip bone in later stages, bringing it into line with the structure found in today's human bipeds.
She began to cross the pool walking bipedally, but after her first steps the water quickly became waist deep and she returned to the pool edge. 2009 January | Netflow Developments
We're in the odd position where adults are being sledged by other adults for being huge bipedal babies.
It was probably a bipedal animal, probably predatory, and probably the size of a large dog.
For example, we share a mode of locomotion, bipedalism, with birds, kangaroos, and some dinos. Matt J. Rossano: Evolution: Is God Just Playing Dice?
And there is one stellar biped who has stuck his neck out to represent Christmas in Japan: the chicken. Amy Chavez: Christmas in Japan
Yes! gentlemen, "addressing the attentive cowboys," I can cure anything that touches the ground -- biped, quadruped, or centipede -- glanders, botts, greased hoofs, heaves, blind staggers, it makes no odds. Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery
Aren't they ALL folksy, blue-eyed, facultatively bipedal teratomas over there? It begins and ends in rust. Which begs the question...
During February's snow (which pretty much defined the whole month for me, being as I saw the first flake on Feb 1st in Hampstead with biped, and the last on the distant mountains east of Grenoble as Keppet drove me to the airport on Feb 28th, and had two solid weeks of it in Northamptonshire between those two), the light and warmth of summer felt even further removed. Skittledog: April, come she will
It was probably a bipedal animal, probably predatory, and probably the size of a large dog.
This form of bipedal locomotion is a waddling gait.
Rabbits don't qualify as saltatorial because they don't really hop. ... To really be saltatorial, a mammal would need to be bipedal.
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
They concluded that movement by the protohominids into this novel dimension of behavior was importantly linked with the advent of bipedalism.
So Gunther et al. (1992) titled a paper 'Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids'. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
Climbing is in our genes, a hangover from childhood and our distant ancestors who developed bipedalism and started walking. Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Why Climb the Highest Mountain? - NASA Watch
Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number. Archive 2009-03-01
Gizmo had become a large bipedal creature with gray fur all over its body.
We had to be less developed to pass through a smaller, bipedal apes cervix, and as a result developed longer and slower, but further than our ape cousins.
a featherless biped
Let there be happiness in our home both for bipeds and quadrupeds.
Dromaeosaurs were all bipedal, fairly cursorial, and terrestrial.
Finally, if the quadrupeds don't alarm T. R. enough, the bipeds will.
In this paper, we put forward a method for the biped walking robot getting up planning, which can achieve the movement of getting up stably and glidingly.
They looked at the flamingos and timed how long it took for them to start moving from both unipedal and bipedal resiting positions. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
It was probably a bipedal animal, probably predatory, and probably the size of a large dog.
Three million years ago she was on her way out of the trees and becoming bipedal. Times, Sunday Times
Leg: In a Biped, the limb, jointedthe knee, supporting the Body and for walking and running.
As a teenager I avidly devoured stories of hairy bipeds glimpsed through snowstorms, strange cries echoing across glaciers, or enigmatic footprints in the snow. Getting to Know a Real 'Abominable Snowman'
Imagine the primordial fear a competing biped species produces.
This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
The animal stage of the game allows you to explore the bigger world, whether your animal be bipedal, unipedal or 8 legged! Blogger Buster
And a best thing about Aix, the parking is atrocious except plenty of it on the outskirts (which is good for us bipeds) Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
There were a few locals about, mostly Keklir, a bipedal race with short, powerful limbs and faces dominated by a wide, tapering snout with two mouthlike openings. Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 2nd Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
Because in an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.
The ultimate aim of the human evolution is to become ' human ' instead of a well dressed and well armed biped animal.
Humanoid bipeds shaped their vocal chords to reproduce the noises they heard about them.
The blame for that goes to another bipedal opportunist. Times, Sunday Times
Well, it is clear that bipedalism arose quite early in hominid history, even if no one can be certain, in the strictest genealogical sense, that the earliest hominid was an upright biped.
The hominid fossil record shows a very clear progression in all of the key human traits - brain size relative to body size, bipedality, dentition, the use of tools, and cultural sophistication - from the miocene primates to modern humans.
Martian humanity is, in fact, a race of sextuple origin; but it is, at present, biped, bimanous and what may be called bipennate, since those beings have two wings. Part III, Chapter III of "Uranie"
The awkward biped stood and looked out over the tops of the grass at a landscape empty of familiar landmarks.
Analysis of the pelvis, thigh bone and knee joint indicate that Lucy and her kind walked on two feet, making them bipeds.
He had no other subject of conversation with this hybrid: and being equally disposed for hot discourse or for sleep, the deprivation of the one and the other forced him to seek amusement in his famous reading of character; which was profound among the biped equine, jockeys, turfmen, sharpers, pugilists, demireps. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2
Darwin speculated that the importance of bipedalism was that it freed the hands from the demands of locomotion, thereby opening the way for toolmaking and other manual activities that make us uniquely human.
If you want to subsist solely on weeds like some sort of bipedal ruminant, that is your right - go for it. TED 2008: Crow vending machine maker Joshua Klein - Boing Boing
We have established -- thanks to Leon Dane's work with injured Catteni --- that there are more points of similarity than differences between our two species since both are bipedal, pentadactyl, and share many of the same external features, like eyes, ears, noses. Freedoms Challenge
I admire the way they blur the line between biped and quadruped. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this month in northeast Ethiopia, the bones of the oldest bipedal hominid to date were discovered.
Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods.
So it is important to know whether some fossil ape-like creature was bipedal or not.
Fred sat up, not that he wished to save the "biped" any anguish, but the wise man vomits comfortably when he can, the necessity being bad enough without additional torment. The Eye of Zeitoon
Our biped ancestor had only to put one foot wrong - and catastrophe - at best a stumble, at worst a broken ankle.
The gigantic, bipedal, elephantine creatures weighed several tons at the largest and had no problem knocking the eighty-foot trees aside as they ran.
One of the pleasures of Stanford's book is its splendidly gossipy account of recent research into the early history of hominid bipedalism.
Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids? Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
Our exobiologists expect any alien species we may encounter to be bipedal mammals that are approximately our size.
The most eagerly sought after evidence in fossil ‘hominids’ is any anatomical feature that suggests bipedality (the ability to walk on two legs).
But none of these species is bipedal. Times, Sunday Times
Si sedeant.] [Footnote 57: Prodigiosae formae, et pandi; ut bipedes existimes bestias; vel quales in commarginandis pontibus, effigiati stipites dolantur incompte. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
But when the negative proposition being particular is necessary, take the terms 'biped', 'moving', 'animal', PRIOR ANALYTICS
All it did was change the background narrative by implying that we did not evolve bipedalism as a mechanism of looking up over the tall grasses. Harlan Ellison on God
Dr. WILLIAM JUNGERS (Anthropologist, Stony Brook University): When animals walk bipedally other primates it is often in the context of carrying, whether they are carrying food items, stones. Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way
To define man as a mammiferous animal having two hands, or as a featherless biped, we feel to be absurd and incongruous, since there is no reference to the most salient characteristic of man, namely, his rationality. Deductive Logic
The last reported sighting of a hulking, hairy biped (other than surfers) in the Santa Cruz Mountains was 1980, but that didn't stop a Felton couple from starting the Bigfoot Discovery Project and related museum in 2003 "to encourage the nonexploitation and preservation of Bigfoot. SFGate: Top News Stories
What is the name of the blankety-blank biped species responsible for leaving messy spots around public toilet seats?
After all, the defining human characteristic is not compassion or the ability to walk upright or our vague mistrust of the Prudential lady or even the notion that we are featherless bipeds possessing a soul. Cell phones alter brain activity? Of course!
It depicts the kalanoro, a "short, three-toed, bipedal, water-dwelling, mean, scruffy-hair hominoid" apparently known to tribes in Madagascar. Boing Boing
Luminara was not alone in taking a couple of surprised steps backward as a veritable deluge of noisy, jabbering, furry bipeds spewed from the concealed crawlway. The Cat is a Metaphor
What we do know for certain is that walking bipedally coincided with a change in where our spinal column enters the skull through a "big hole" called the foramen magnum. Human Family Walks on All Fours
Even somebody from lands foreign would have pegged him as a giant: he was unusually tall for a mammalian biped, and more powerful than an elephant.
This group of hominids were definitely bipedal, had small canine teeth and, therefore, were early men.
Due to the wide shape of the jawbone it has been postulated that Gigantopithecus was a biped, with the neck placed directly under the skull. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
In other words, our ancestral rodents did not merely evolve gradually until they emerged as bipeds with opposable thumbs.
Before we can truly say we have a strong case for the * actual* cause of the evolution of bipedalism (the primary trait separating us from our closest cousins) we need to find an even older specimen that has not yet fully made that transition - and then ask the question: "What environment does this creature live in? Harlan Ellison on God
The superior feet of the chimpanzee in bipedal work is for that species a great advantage, and the longer toes of the orang are a handicap. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
If we can prove this creature exists, not only will it be an astounding zoological discovery but it may give us more clues to how bipedalism evolved in our own species. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
Absent from all this good cheer is any mention of that humble bipedal ambulator, the pedestrian - you know, flat footed, wearing battered Converse or ballet shoes, tends to get mangled on the bull bars of an SUV, that sort of thing. Londonist
Culture, bipedalism, stone tools and fire are all frequently invoked. The Times Literary Supplement
Bipedality freed the forelimbs and allowed development of the hands as highly specialized appendages with great dexterity.
It is found in the Endymion (a circular walled plain) in company with a small kind of reindeer, the elk, the moose, and the horned bear, and is described as the biped beaver. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
Our exobiologists expect any alien species we may encounter to be bipedal mammals that are approximately our size.
Our jaws became complicated joints after we went bipedal. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, what would you expect when an eight foot saurian biped in silvery vacuum armor suddenly appears in the middle of the United Nations Security Council? 365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The scientists working on the project hypothesized as to why: bipedalism would have freed the upper limbs for other functions, potentially as a means of gathering more food for a central family unit. Harlan Ellison on God
Rules for robot soccer can differ (especially when considering the varieties that exist for mobile platforms, bipedal platforms, or Sony Aibo), but all share the fundamental model of the game.
I think carrying is the most plausible precursor for bipedality. Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way
Postural bipedalism, similar to that displayed by chimpanzees, could possibly have originated in arboreal or terrestrial feeding situations in wooded environments and was subsequently modified to locomotor bipedality.
It seems the gorilla was the first biped
Massive but short stegosaur forelimbs suggest primarily bipedal locomotion, and quadrupedal defense posture. Neoceratopsian publications for 2008
The human skeleton is different for many reasons, including the fact that we are the only habitual biped with upper limbs that are solely dedicated to manipulation and not involved in locomotion.
I am fairly sure the coyote was trying to rationalize in its brain something that was completely foreign to all of its brief life experiences: two large biped creatures traveling slowly in the night, deep in its territory for no apparent reason. The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question.
It is clearly designed for an upright, bipedal creature.
It is built like a boxer, with immense upper body strength … It was a gorgeous colour, moving bipedally and trying to avoid being seen. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
He had always been fond of Jinx - in other circumstances, the bipedal tiger might have become a cosseted pet.
I am a natural-born biped, fond of hoofing it leisurely and not air-minded. Jimgrim
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
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
No primatologist or anthropologist seems to have made anything of this, but I've yet to see anything that would rule out an arboreal leaping stage in (small) hominids that would explain the transition to walking bipedalism (indriids can't do this with their huge divergent hallux, but we grip branches with the instep instead). Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
A cursorial bipedal animal would have its arms free to do with them as it pleased while running, and its running speed would allow it to achieve the minimum speed necessary for liftoff.
They were described as man-size bipeds, but digitigrade, which gave their feet almost the appearance of a dog's walking on its hind legs. Agent Of The Terran Empire
We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.
These villainous bipeds do fearfully exorbitate mine ear," said the agonised musician. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
Diogenes famously joked that if humans are a featherless biped, then a plucked chicken is human. Matthew Yglesias » Kathryn Jean-Lopez and Rush Limbaugh Are Not Very Intelligent
Other's have noted these differences and taken them out of context, one going so far as to publish a news article in Al-Jazeerah titled something along of the lines of "Ardi proves Darwin wrong" (google it) – as if the idea that we got one hypothetical detail in a potential mechanism for the evolution of bipedalism wrong somehow refutes the entire Theory of Evolution. Harlan Ellison on God
“living on land” is divisible into walking and flying, and walking is further divisible into quadruped, biped, and polypod. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The glows appeared at varied heights, as the beings seemed to have a choice of being bipeds or quadrupeds.
The Yixian dinosaurs were cursorial, bipedal, and not capable of flight.
Tyrannosaurs grew out of a group of lightweight, carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs that also gave rise to birds.
They state that the australopithecine material has been poorly interpreted because of preconceived notions, and that australopithecine bipedality may have been quite different from and unrelated to human bipedality.
In their view, terrestrial, bipedal dinosaurs flapped their ‘arms’ first and later evolved into fliers.
Si sedeant.] 57 Prodigiosae formae, et pandi; ut bipedes existimes bestias; vel quales in commarginandis pontibus, effigiati stipites dolantur incompte. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
That would have laid the groundwork for the success of the archaic bipedal hominids.
The theropod (meaning ‘beast-footed’) dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs.
I look for one of these awesome creatures - are they bipeds, quadrupeds, spotted or brindle?
Debate persists about when and how early humans left the trees to walk bipedally on land. Times, Sunday Times
The only reason we know human beings are a special kind of biped is by studying human beings. Back to Back
We take the geometry method to derive the inverse kinematics and the center of pressure (COP) of the biped robot.
Clever tool-making hands meant we had to be bipedal. Times, Sunday Times
And contrary to his assertions that he doesn't "do personal attacks," IU has documented the reality that any cognitively functional bipedal hominoid has already figured out - O'Reilly is a bullying buffoon: Bill O'Reilly: Propaganda Pimp
The frogs are important because many scientists think that our slimy green pond brethren can tell the future by being susceptible to diseases that will bedevil us bipeds down the line.
Theropods are the line of mainly carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs from which birds evolved.
Our implementation of dynamic programming is performed in a reduced dimensional subspace of a simulated four-DOF biped robot with point feet.
They acted more like huge flightless birds of prey, than the overgrown bipedal lizards of popular imagination.
When I was a kid growing up, my books on dinosaurs, when describing the Triassic period, featured drawings and descriptions of small bipedal thecodonts, looking like miniature theropod dinosaurs.
It was a bipedal creature from what she could see but it resembled something close to a wild tiger in the upper torso.
So Gunther et al. (1992) titled a paper 'Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids'. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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
Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids? Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
Analysis of the bones shows that the Dmanisi hominids definitely walked bipedally and upright. The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
Some researchers have proposed that the first pterosaurs were bipedal or quadrupedal arboreal gliders, but these hypotheses do not incorporate a robust phylogenetic and functional basis.
The idea of an efficient running bipedal animal taking to the trees seems quite unlikely. Times, Sunday Times
We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.
It WAS a menagerie of garmented bipeds that looked something like humans and more like beasts, and to complete the picture, brass-buttoned keepers kept order among them when they snarled too fiercely. A VISION OF THE NIGHT
In his book The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior, anthropologist Craig Stanford of the University of Southern California brings to attention the chief differences between humans and chimpanzees, namely bipedalism and larger brain size in humans. Chimps Have Culture
The mechanics have not changed for at least 2m years, when knuckle-dragging was superseded by bipedalism. Times, Sunday Times
Further, the definition of the whole is not contained in the definitions of the contents or elements of the definitory formula; that of ‘man’ for instance in ‘biped’, or that of ‘white man’ in ‘white’. Physics
The open savannas where the earliest bipeds evolved were hot, with little shade, and the effect of the sun would have been severe.
How about it walks like a person, or a human, or bipedally. PETMAN Walks Like A Man » E-Mail
‘Right now we can say this is the world's oldest bipedal apeman,’ said Latimer.
But although these early bipeds may have developed a more extensive gestural repertoire, I doubt whether their language began to develop grammatical sophistication until about two million years ago.
Actually, he was quite wrong; we've been eating oysters since we were bipedal. Times, Sunday Times
A cursorial bipedal animal would have its arms free to do with them as it pleased while running, and its running speed would allow it to achieve the minimum speed necessary for liftoff.
This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
Marlin, sailfish, beaked whales and large artiodactyls and the recently discovered bipedal predatory dinosaur Suchomimus tenenerensis have neural spines that have broad anterior-to-posterior surfaces.
We should be able to tell the size of his average step, how his chest muscles worked, and if he was truly a quadruped or if he was bipedal.
Strange to see aliens as the main theme of a carving; where you expect to see humans there are bipedal cats in their stead.
Eventually, the behaviorists caved in and exempted the bipedal ape from their theory of everything.
And in the midst of better conditions and brighter prospects the shameless, brainless, fameless bipeds pollute the atmosphere, poison hearts and plant discontent. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep
Dr. TACHERRY: You know, bipedality, walking on two legs. Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way
Unfortunately, determining whether bipedalism was the cause of increased velocity, or simply a behavioral by-product, is difficult, as bipedality increased with stride number.
If we figure out that the probable ancestor of a flying group was a bipedal cursorial form, then flight likely evolved from the ground up.
Such a gathering together of ham-and-mackerel-fed bipeds, such a lavish display of gold-dust, such troops of happy-looking men bending beneath the delicious weight of butter and potatoes, and, above all, _such_ a smell of fried onions as instantaneously rose upon the fragrant California air and ascended gratefully into the blue California heaven was, I think, never experienced before. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
They dodged the blows aimed at them, and "jinked" round the bushes as if they had been trained to such work in a regular public school for human bipeds, and they struck out with their pinions, too, so deftly and with such force that the pursuers had to become extremely cautious as well as bold in their approaches. The Pioneers
Based on compounding cycloid track, a leg mechanism of a bipedal dinosaur was designed.
Wood thinks Thorpe's findings put these fossil apes in a new light and that they may have been true bipeds that evolved bipedalism to reach for fruit. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
The Dwarra were bipedal, bisymmetrical, and bisexual, like himself. Running From The Deity
Modern humans are bipeds - we have two feet.
A course exploring the notion of whether Bigfoot, or any other such bipedal, hairy, manlike monster might really exist can be an excellent opportunity to teach anthropology and critical thinking to students who are in desperate need of such instruction.
Thirdly, substantial differences are seen between the hip bones of quadrupedal and bipedal primates, involving also the locomotor and postural muscles attached to the hip bones.
It's possible, for example, that early hominids living as bipeds in patchy forests became easier targets for leopards and other predators.
Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods.

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