Footprints Reveal 2 Extinct Hominin Species Living Side By Side
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2HA1.jpg?itok=n-FsVqLY"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2HA1.jpg?itok=n-FsVqLY" width="610" height="366" alt="Excavating the new trackway site, with footprints from hominins, birds and other animals visible in foreground." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/anna-k-behrensmeyer-2269835" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
Anna K. Behrensmeyer[/url]
, <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/kevin-hatala-2269839" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
Kevin Hatala[/url]
& <a href="
https://theconversation.com/profiles/purity-kiura-2269874" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
Purity Kiura[/url]/
The Conversation</p>
<p>Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same – they record instants in the lives of many different extinct organisms, back to the <a href="
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08623" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earliest creatures that walked on four feet[/url], 380 million years ago.</p>
<p>Discoveries in eastern Africa of tracks made by
hominins – our ancient relatives – are telling paleontologists like ourselves about the behavior of hominin species that
walked on two feet and resembled us but were not yet human like we are today. <a href="
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado5275" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Our new research focuses on footprints[/url] that amazingly record two different species of hominins walking along the same Kenyan lakeshore at the same time, roughly 1.5 million years ago.</p>
<p>Studying ancient tracks like these fills in exciting pieces of the
human evolution story because they provide evidence for hominin behavior and locomotion that scientists cannot learn from fossilized bones.</p>
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