The modern human foot walked 1.5 million years ago

Fossilized prints found on a riverbank in Kenya are the earliest evidence of modern human-like foot anatomy, an anthropologist says. Modern humans emerged from the African mists about 50,000 years ago, but modern human feet appeared much earlier -- at least 1.5 million years ago, according to fossilized footprints found on the banks of a river near Ileret, Kenya.

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