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It is a significant discovery because it demonstrates there was more than one pre-human species living in East Africa between three and four million years ago, each with its own method of moving around. The other creature was the famous "Lucy" animal (Australopithecus afarensis), whose remains were first identified in the Afar in the 1970s. Lucy's body was built for walking. Her big toe was aligned with the other four digits of the foot, and she had a human-like arch that allowed for very efficient locomotion.
The owner of the partial foot from Burtele was not afarensis; that can be said definitively. The fossils indicate it had no arch and the big toe was opposed to the other digits, enabling the animal to grasp branches in a tree. But the fact this creature could and would walk on the ground is evidenced by the nature of the bone joints. These were arranged such that the foot could push off, or toe-off - something only humans do as they walk, and something flat-footed apes cannot achieve.
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"old hominin" sounds like something ET would say instead of "ad hominem."
"Allah contraire my friend, that is just old hominin!"
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Yukishiro1 posted:
"old hominin" sounds like something ET would say instead of "ad hominem."
"Allah contraire my friend, that is just old hominin!"
When I glanced at the title of the thread that's what I thought.
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