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The Family That Walks on All Fours is a BBC Two documentary that explored the science and the story of five individuals in the Ulas family, a Kurdish family in Southeastern Turkey that walk with a previously unreported quadruped gait. [1] [2] [3]
The gait is different from the knuckle-walking quadrupedal gait of apes. In 2006, the family was the subject of a documentary: The Family That Walks On All Fours. The affected people have a form of non-progressive congenital cerebellar ataxia.
The affected family members also have learning disabilities and their speech is affected. Tan proposed that these are symptoms of Uner Tan syndrome. [1] In January 2008, Tan reported on another family (four males and two females) located in southern Turkey. [2] Four other unrelated cases in families are described as having various degrees of ...
Five members of one family walk on all fours, leading one scientist to say their condition signals backwards evolution. Other scientists have a different take.
Quadrupedalism is sometimes referred to as being "on all fours", and is observed in crawling, especially by infants. [1] In the 20th century quadrupedal movement was popularized as a form of physical exercise by Georges Hebert. [2] Kenichi Ito is a Japanese man famous for speed running on four limbs in competitions. [3]
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In law, a commanding precedent is a precedent whose facts are "on all fours" with the case at hand. In other words, it almost exactly tracks it, sharing near-identical facts and issues. [ 1 ] A commanding precedent is also referred to as a "Goose" case in Louisiana ; [ 2 ] "Spotted Horse" or "Spotted Dog" cases in Alabama ; [ 3 ] "Cow" case in ...
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