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1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species


A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.

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