From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.

Answering those questions that make you go,

um, um, um. Moment of Um, um, um, comes to you from APM studios. And I'm a mom.

Um.

And yesterday, I was playing with my baby Josie.

This little piggy went to market and this little piggy went home.

And this little piggy ate roast beef and this little piggy had none when I got pretty

preoccupied with something and this little pigie wants to know why we have toes. What do they do?

Your toes are so cutey, my little Petuetueti. Yes, they are, but from this ankle they do look

a bit like pigies.

Turns out, Aaron from California had the same question.

Hi, my name is Aaron from Chino, California,

and I'd like to ask,

why do we need our toes so much?

We humans have pretty special feet.

We're the only animals alive today that walk around on two legs in the

way that we do. My name is Darcy Shapiro and I'm an evolutionary

anthropologist who studies the evolution of hips and walking. It's called Stray. an They hop. Birds also walk on two legs. The bones in their lower legs and feet aren't arranged

quite the same way ours too, so their walk is different from ours. So we're pretty unique.

And we didn't always walk this way the feet of our closest living

primate relatives like chimpanzees and bonobos and guerrillas. They're different from ours.

Their toes are longer and they're different from ours. Their toes are longer and their big toe is

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