[Rockhounds] Losing their tails provided our ape ancestors with an evolutionary advantage

[Paul]

Losing their tails provided our ape ancestors with an
evolutionary advantage, but we're still paying the price
by Laurence D. Hurst, PhysOrg, The Conversation, March 3, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-tails-ape-ancestors-evolutionary-advantage.htmlXia, 
B., Zhang, W., Zhao, G.,

The open access paper is:

Zhang, X., Bai, J., Brosh, R., Wudzinska, A., Huang,
E., Ashe, H., Ellis, G. and Pour, M., 2024. On the
genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes.
Nature, 626(8001), pp.1042-1048.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8

Yours,

Paul H.