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Timothy McDougald



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2012,09:51   

This is cool! Unfortunately, I don't have access to Nature. At any rate, this is the interesting bit:

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The partial foot is the first evidence for the presence of at least two pre-human species with different modes of locomotion contemporaneously living in eastern Africa around 3.4 million years ago. While the big toe of the foot in Lucy’s species was aligned with the other four toes for human-like bipedal walking, the Burtele foot has an opposable big toe like the earlier Ardi.


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