1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative
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“Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya suggest that groups of Paranthropus boisei traveled together 1.4 million years ago. The tracks indicate these extinct human relatives may have reached surprisingly large, human-like body sizes.”
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