Footprint find on Crete may push back date humans began to walk upright
“The interpretation of these footprints is potentially controversial,” the study’s abstract admits.
“The print morphology suggests that the trackmaker was a basal member of the clade Hominini (human ancestral tree), but as Crete is some distance outside the known geographical range of pre-Pleistocene (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago) hominins we must also entertain the possibility that they represent a hitherto unknown late Miocene primate that convergently evolved human-like foot anatomy.”
Put simply, the study argues there was another — previously unidentified — human-like creature walking the Earth long before we believed it was possible.
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“The interpretation of these footprints is potentially controversial,” the study’s abstract admits.
“The print morphology suggests that the trackmaker was a basal member of the clade Hominini (human ancestral tree), but as Crete is some distance outside the known geographical range of pre-Pleistocene (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago) hominins we must also entertain the possibility that they represent a hitherto unknown late Miocene primate that convergently evolved human-like foot anatomy.”
Put simply, the study argues there was another — previously unidentified — human-like creature walking the Earth long before we believed it was possible.
http://ift.tt/2wwaME4
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