{"id":929754,"date":"2026-08-26T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/our-ancient-ancestors-may-have-climbed-trees-with-monkey-feet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:14:53","slug":"our-ancient-ancestors-may-have-climbed-trees-with-monkey-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/our-ancient-ancestors-may-have-climbed-trees-with-monkey-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Ancient Ancestors May Have Climbed Trees with \u2018Monkey\u2019 Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature An enduring debate in paleoanthropology asks what kind of foot the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and chimpanzees had: one built like a modern ape\u2019s for climbing straight up trees, or one built more like a generalized monkey\u2019s, less suited to vertical climbing.<br \/>\nThe post Our Ancient Ancestors May Have Climbed Trees with \u2018Monkey\u2019 Feet appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/othersciences\/anthropology\/human-chimpanzee-last-common-ancestor-feet-15015.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Sergio Prostak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature An enduring debate in paleoanthropology asks what kind of foot the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and chimpanzees had: one built like a modern ape\u2019s for climbing straight up trees, or one built more like a generalized monkey\u2019s, less suited to vertical climbing. The post Our Ancient Ancestors May Have Climbed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32171,3350,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ancestors","category-ancient","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}