Ancient footprints found at Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago. Published as the cover story in the Feb. 27 issue of the journal Science, the anatomical interpretation is the conclusion of Rutgers Professor John W.K. Harris* and an international team of colleagues.
Based on size of the footprints and their modern anatomical characteristics, the authors attribute the prints to the hominid Homo ergaster, or early Homo erectus as it is more generally known. This was the first hominid to have had the same body proportions (longer legs and shorter arms) as modern Homo sapiens. Various H. ergaster or H. erectus remains have been found in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa, with dates consistent with the Ileret footprints.
Let’s wait and see what kind of mental gymnastics the IDers will try to perform in a attempt to explain this discovery.
This find is all over the science web sites,the pictures are so wonderful.
How can you not marvel over such a great discovery that opens a window into our human past. AWESOME!!!!
“Hey Ooog, let’s sneak away for a stroll along the river bank. Just the two of us. No one will ever know.”
Obviously, the dating techniques that were used here are terribly flawed. Certainly those footprints can’t be any older than about 6000 years!
I’ll give it about three days before this story gets prominently featured (and of course, thoroughly mangled) by kooks like those at AIG.
Sorry, but I underestimated. It took eight days.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/03/07/news-to-note-03072009