#bipedalism

Here's my proposal for a Bipedal Alterhuman (or Nonhuman) flag.

The point of this flag is to represent the alterhumans and nonhumans who do bipedalism. You do not have to exclusively do bipedalism to use this flag, so if you do quadrobics you're also free to use this flag.

The purple, white and green are taken from the nonhuman unity flag.

The pink half triangle and short red line is to represent the theta-delta of therianthropy.

The cyan line with an arrow is to represent the alt key that represents alterhumanity.

Yellow is to represent a bright future and also the fictionkin symbol, since the one I see uses yellow in it.

The dark blue circle is to represent alterhumans and nonhumans united together in one, or those who are both alterhuman and nonhuman.

The sky blue lines are to represent the otherkin symbol, which is a heptagram (thanks Wikipedia), but I knew if I drew the heptagram it would be an eyesore.

The cyan and pink lines crossing together represent bipedalism, bi meaning two and you can interpret the lines representing the limbs or legs.

Suggestions, feedbacks and remixes or remakes are very much welcomed. It is optional to credit me when using the flag but I appreciate it if you did.

Men can be women, apparently. The author never explains how this is actually true, but rather asserts it without evidence. What is gender identity? Your guess is as good as mine, the author won’t expand on it. How can men be women when they lack all the distinct evolutionary traits that biologically define human females? How can they be women when not a single cell in their bodies is a woman’s? How can they be women when they go through none of the defining life stages of girls and women — menarche, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and menopause? The author will never tell… 😏

Women’s bodies are superior to men’s — hardier, more complicated, and more resilient. Putting on a dress and calling yourself some stupid shit like Lilith doesn’t give you those defining biological traits. Being a woman is a biological reality, not a misogynistic feeling. Women are exclusively female, which is a super rad thing to be.

“Menopause is about outliving the men we love.” Menopause is in no way related to men. I can’t even follow this thought it’s so stupid.

I absolutely could not disagree more that rape is “weirdly sexy.”

I could not give less of a shit that men’s penises are less sensitive than chimpanzees. It’s not necessary to suck men’s dicks in a book about female evolution and that would have been my note if I was the editor.

“Being a woman is actually about being a whore” is another nuclear take from someone whom I suspect hit her head a few too many times as a child.

And women are responsible for patriarchy?! I love it when a book wraps up with some casual victim blaming. That’s cool. Really insightful, not gross sex-traitor drivel at all…

Mechs wouldn't work cuz they've got stiff feet :|

Subtle variations in pressure and shape to match the walking-surface are vital for maintaining balance during bipedal motion(if you were just quadrupeds, or crawled on your stomachs like SSSENSIBLE people, it wouldn't matter >:( ).

You humans just see the weird wiggly end of your toes, but the human foot is MOSTLY toes in the form of metatarsals, bizarre and long disconnected foot-fingers, caught in a web of muscle to make a sort of walking-mitt or land-flipper, ala a snow shoe, and behind THAT are of course the Cuniform bones and Tuberosity, which is a further collection of disconnected bone-rocks, held together by muscle and tendon so they can shift against each other and shape themselves to any surface. The only truly solid part of the human foot is the heel. Do You See?

THUS: Mechs got flat metal feet; ERGO: they can't maintain balance, so they can't walk.

It's SCIENCE!

Anthropology: Newer Books on Human Evolution

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. At a time when our species has never faced greater threats, we’re obsessed with what makes us special. But, much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination... perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. It is only by understanding them, that we can truly understand ourselves.

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison

Fossil Men is the first full-length exploration of Ardi, the fossil men who found her, and her impact on what we know about the origins of the human species. It is a scientific detective story played out in anatomy and the natural history of the human body. Kermit Pattison brings into focus a cast of eccentric, obsessive scientists, including one of the world's greatest fossil hunters, Tim White--an exacting and unforgiving fossil hunter whose virtuoso skills in the field were matched only by his propensity for making enemies; Gen Suwa, a Japanese savant who sometimes didn't bother going home at night to devote more hours to science; Owen Lovejoy, a onetime creationist-turned-paleoanthropologist; Berhane Asfaw, who survived imprisonment and torture to become Ethiopia's most senior paleoanthropologist and who fought for African scientists to gain equal footing in the study of human origins; and the Leakeys, for decades the most famous family in paloanthropology.

An intriguing tale of scientific discovery, obsession and rivalry that moves from the sun-baked desert of Africa and a nation caught in a brutal civil war, to modern high-tech labs and academic lecture halls, Fossil Men is popular science at its best, and a must read for fans of Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson.

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince

In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools have enabled humans to control the destiny of our species.

What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution – a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones – caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time. She explains how, through four key elements – fire, language, beauty, and time – our species diverged from the evolutionary path of all other animals, unleashing a compounding process that launched us into the Space Age and beyond. Provocative and poetic, Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvellous.

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva