August 05, 2005
Hominid Steps

The Laetoli footprints, for the past forty years an icon of humanity's evolution, are back in the news. After experiments and fossil reconstructions, two scientists are calling into doubt the conclusion that these footprints were made by Australopithecus afarensis, the hominid species to which the famous "Lucy" fossil belongs. Just who might have made them instead they leave an open question.

Posted by scott at August 05, 2005 10:02 AM

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