Legs picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 19 image entries
Contest Directions: 
Scientific study published this week suggests that humans learned to walk on two legs on trees holding tree branches for support. Skeletons of early humans are consistent with this study and show short legs and long arms. The research rejects the widely accepted theory that humans learned to walk upright on open land by "knuckle-walking" as done by chimpanzees, gorillas, and Rosie O'Donnel.
In this contest you are asked to show how humans would look if their legs evolved differently in one way or another. Some examples may include people with legs that are shorter, longer, smaller, or bigger. Feel free to use celebrities, politicians, characters from paintings and art works, or any of other humans.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 6/1/2007 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 6/3/2007 6:00:00 AM
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| | Human legs were onces short and designed to better climb the trees
rather than walk on just two legs. The intermediary evolution stage to
walking upright was done in on forest trees by prehistoric humans
who used tree branches for support. So says the research published by
the scientists at Liverpool and Birmingham, which goes against the
previously accepted anthropology theory that early humans trained to
walk on two legs through the intermediary stage of "knuckle walking"
exhibited by gorilla and and chimpanzee these days. The British
research is based on studying the behavior of orangutans which use
tree branches for support when walking on two legs. This breakthrough
scientific paper was published this week and argues that knuckle
walking was only secondary trait developed later, and had little
to do with legs becoming the primary moving limbs. Early human
skeletons show that legs were relatively short and arms were long.
As evolution progressed and humans started to walk upright, their legs
became longer and stronger to compensate for the absence of hands in
walking process. So the next time you see those beautiful long female legs,
remember that thousands of years ago they were shorter and were used
for climbing trees. Neanderthal men still found them attractive,
however, and those legs were considered beautiful in ancient times. |
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