1.5 Million-Year Footprints Show Modern Stride (2 of 9) (IMAGE)

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1.5 Million-Year Footprints Show Modern Stride (2 of 9)

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This is a fossil footprint on the upper surface at FwJj14E. This image accompanied the report "Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya," by M.R. Bennett et. al. appearing in the Feb. 27, 2009, issue of Science.

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Image courtesy of Professor Matthew Bennett, Bournemouth University, via <i>Science</i>/AAAS

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