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5.7 Million-Year-Old Hominin Footprints Challenge Human Evolutionary Timeline

12-9-2017 < Humans Are Free 106 176 words
 
A new discovery on the Mediterranean island of Crete might be about to put yet another cat among those pigeons, as researchers claim that hominin footprints found on the island date back some 5.7 million years.

by Josh Davis, guest author

If the discoveries over the past few decades have told us anything, it’s that the evolution of humans is anything but simple.

Now, a new discovery on the Mediterranean island of Crete might be about to put yet another cat among those pigeons, as researchers claim that hominin footprints found on the island date back some 5.7 million years.

The trackways have been found on the island of Crete, quite some 
distance from the plains of east Africa. Andrzej Boczarowski

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