Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human Evolution Story: Two Hominid Species Walked Kenya’s Turkana Basin 1.5 Million Years Ago

Footprints from Kenya’s Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ago, with distinct bipedalism patterns suggesting different evolutionary trajectories. Newly discovered fossil footprints have revealed that at least two different hominid species walked along the muddy, submerged edge of a lake in Kenya’s Turkana Basin at the same [...]

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