"Born to run" and not "born to climb trees and pick fruit". New evidence that the fully upright bipedal posture reduces human's abilities to climb trees. Yahoo News report based on an article that appears in the current "Nature" magazine: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&u=/nm/20041117/sc_nm/science_running_dc_3&printer=1 Here's a short intro on the Nature website: http://www.nature.com/nature/links/041118/041118-1.html and the article summary: http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v432/n7015/abs/nature03052_fs.html&dynoptions=doi1100793286 Full text of the article is on the Nature website - for subscribers, those with proxy access, andfor purchase by all others. Tom Billings