11.They conclude that Lucy could straighten her knee joints, enabling her to stand and walk upright as we do and thereby inhabit grasslands, but also that her big, powerful leg muscles helped her live in trees like modern apes.
12.For example, early accounts of the birds mention how slow and clumsy it was, but scientists now believe the bird's strong knee joints would have made it capable of movement which was not slow, but actually quite fast.
13.Wow! She is really hyper flexible. It's hypermobility, not just in the knee joint, but in the hip joint as well. Cause to do that whole rotation there, I could see that causing a significant problem medically down the line.