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Ancient footprints offer clues into early humans’ body size

Related News

  • Paleontology: These feet were made for walking (eLife)
  • Stepping back 3.6m years: footprints yield new clues to humans’ ancestors (The Guardian)
  • The Footprints at Laetoli (The Getty Conservation Institute)
  • Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa (New Scientist)
  • Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution (Uppsala University)

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Human evolution likely encouraged by a dry climate Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia

Annotated by Ian Winkelstern

Annotated on 06/03/2016

Originally published 03/20/2015

girl and dna
Out of Africa: What skin color tells us about human evolution Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations

Annotated by Allison Mayle , Beth Ruedi PhD

Annotated on 04/25/2018

Originally published 10/12/2017

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