Earliest modern gait found in ancient footprints
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 14:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
More than a million years ago an ancient human ancestor walked across a sandy plain in eastern Africa, leaving footprints that scientists are now hailing as the earliest evidence of modern upright walking.
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