Of all the possible ways that we could have potentially evolved to get from one place to the other, how did we end up with the bipedal technique we use today? It’s not a question that is commonly asked. However Matt Wilkinson (the Cambridge tutor, not the professional surfer) became so interested in discovering the answer to it that he wrote a book on the subject of biological locomotion titled Restless Creatures; The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
Through examining the types of locomotion employed by various living things and considering it agains that the environments in which each evolved, Wilkinson takes his readers through four billion years of movement and explains how the challenge of getting from place to place is really one of the driving forces behind evolution itself.
