Ancient foot, modern walk.

• Position: ANTHROPOLOGY - Homo erectus - Brief article

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Until. now, no footprint trail, had ever been associated with early members of our long-legged genus Homo. But prints recently uncovered near lake Turkana in northern Kenya show that as early as 1.5 million years ago, an ancestral, species, most likely Homo erectus, had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans. Scientists say the individuals had heels, insteps, and toes almost identical to ours, and that they walked with a long, humanlike stride. William Junger, a paleoanthropologist at...