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1.5 Million-Year Footprints Show Modern Stride (3 of 9)

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1.5 Million-Year Footprints Show Modern Stride (3 of 9)

image: This is an inverted scan of one of the footprints (Homo erectus) at FwJj14E. The scan has been color rendered with black and white isopleths to enhance visualization. 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. view more 

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


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