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World’s oldest _Homo sapiens_ footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast

World’s oldest _Homo sapiens_ footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast: The oldest known footprint of our species, lightly ringed with chalk. It appears long and narrow because the trackmaker dragged their heel. Charles Helm Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human …

Fossil find suggests _Homo erectus_ emerged 200,000 years earlier than thought

Fossil find suggests _Homo erectus_ emerged 200,000 years earlier than thought: The ~2 Ma Homo erectus cranium, DNH 134, from the Drimolen Fossil Hominin site. Matthew V. Caruana The human evolutionary path is complicated. It’s almost impossible to say exactly when we modern humans became “us”. This quandary is best articulated by the famous naturalist …