Footwork

Footwork

notebook

campus 16

interview 22

undying 25

artifact 26

personal history 28

UPFRONT

Prof’s new book explores the wonders of walking.

Jeremy DeSilva’s First Steps offers the anthropologist’s engaging account of how humans—the only mammals to walk on two rather than four legs—have embraced bipedalism to become the planet’s dominant species. The book took root in DeSilva’s course on the origins of upright walking, which he’s taught for six years. More on page 17.