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Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative

Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of humanity's extinct relatives. A paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a set of fossil trackways made by a group of ancient human relatives mo...

Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative
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Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of humanity's extinct relatives. A paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a set of fossil trackways made by a group of ancient human relatives moving along a lakeshore more than 1.4 million years ago.

Originally published at Phys.org

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