Why did We Apes Lose Our Tails?

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Walks through the actual papers rather than headlines. Gutsick Gibbon (Erika) is a biological anthropologist who walks through the primary literature on screen.

Why apes, including humans, lost their tails: the fossil record and the TBXT gene study.

Video by Gutsick Gibbon, played through YouTube's embedded player.