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1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Giant Human Relative
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Researchers have discovered 1.4-million-year-old footprints in Kenya belonging to Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative. The findings suggest these hominins were larger than previously thought and may have exhibited complex social behaviors like traveling in all-male groups.
A 1.4-million-year-old trail of footprints reveals that a powerful human relative grew nearly as large as us and may have traveled in all-male groups.
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