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Human-like Footprint shouldn't be there
Topic Started: Sep 3 2017, 04:16 AM (191 Views)
George K
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/evolution/footprint-find-on-crete-may-push-back-date-humans-began-to-walk-upright/news-story/2e60cbd7386573dd2a45c5cc9d79297d

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HUMAN-like footprints have been found stamped into an ancient sea shore fossilised beneath the Mediterranean island of Crete.
They shouldn’t be there
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Testing puts the rock’s age at 5.7 million years.

That’s a time when palaeontologists believe our human ancestors had only apelike feet.

And they lived in Africa.

But a study into the Trachilos, western Crete, prints determines them to feature prominent human features and an upright stance.

And that’s significant as the human foot has a unique shape. It combines a long sole, five short toes, no claws — and a big toe.

In comparison, the foot of a Great Ape look much more like a human hand.

Published in the latest edition of Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, the study’s conclusions are bound to raise eyebrows in the human evolution community.

“The interpretation of these footprints is potentially controversial,” the study’s abstract admits.

“The print morphology suggests that the trackmaker was a basal member of the clade Hominini (human ancestral tree), but as Crete is some distance outside the known geographical range of pre-Pleistocene (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago) hominins we must also entertain the possibility that they represent a hitherto unknown late Miocene primate that convergently evolved human-like foot anatomy.”

Put simply, the study argues there was another — previously unidentified — human-like creature walking the Earth long before we believed it was possible.

And that step in evolution wasn’t believed to have taken place until some 4 million years ago.
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:popcorn: This could get very interesting.
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Nah, the science is settled...
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Heh... Love it when some new find has the paleontologists and cryptozoologists all scratching their collective arses. :lol2:
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How dare they question?
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Sep 3 2017, 03:13 PM
How dare they question?
Maybe they'll be put under house arrest and forced to recant this heresy.
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Sep 3 2017, 05:57 AM
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Have you read that?

I have been meaning to get a copy of it.

I really liked Hogan's, "The Genesis Machine".
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Sep 3 2017, 04:31 PM
Jolly
Sep 3 2017, 05:57 AM
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Have you read that?

I have been meaning to get a copy of it.

I really liked Hogan's, "The Genesis Machine".
Years ago. I've read the whole Giants series.

Certainly worth the read.
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