You can look back 1.5M years ago and see us walking

William Atkins
Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:19

Science - Biology

In other words, their conclusion says that, based on the fossilized remains of these footprints, these ancient ancestors of humans walked like we do today, only they did it 1.5 million (Ma) years ago.

Further, these ancient human ancestors walked while in an upright stance.

In addition, the footprint is very similar to a footprint that one might find today of humans walking barefoot on a sanding beach or the imprint left on concrete by a person emerging from a neighborhood pool.

The footprint was found near the village of Ileret, which is in the Marsabit District, Eastern Province, of northern Kenya, and generally in astern Africa.

Ileret is also located on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, north of the Sibiloi National Park, which is near the border between Kenya and Ethiopia.

Back about 1.5 million years ago, one of our ancient ancestors walked across this land, left his or her footprints in the mud or soggy soil, and, now, this team unearthed some of them.

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