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A new analysis of 1.5-million-year-old fossil footprints uncovered at Kenya's Ileret site suggests that they were made by a human ancestor with a gait different than that of modern humans.Courtesy of Matthew Bennett/Bournemouth Univ.

Ancient walking gets weirder: Fossils from two human ancestors suggest diversity in gait, stance

1 posted on 04/19/2012 6:14:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Is that why the Kenyan POTUS swishes when he walks.


4 posted on 04/19/2012 6:17:00 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: SunkenCiv
They keep looking in Africa, don’t they. As far as possible from where the Bible says it all happened, yes?

Funny how if it walks like a duck et cetera it’s a duck, but if it walks like a gorilla, it ain’t a gorilla but a “human ancestor” . . . ?
5 posted on 04/19/2012 6:19:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe it was the Ministry of Silly Walks.


6 posted on 04/19/2012 6:20:29 PM PDT by almcbean
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To: SunkenCiv

9 posted on 04/19/2012 6:33:34 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: SunkenCiv

The Homo had a wide stance??


12 posted on 04/19/2012 6:54:27 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: SunkenCiv
funny gifs
13 posted on 04/19/2012 6:58:56 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: SunkenCiv

Footprints belong to an early member of the Zumba Tribe.


14 posted on 04/19/2012 7:27:58 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Zoom??? Who knew?)
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIFUm70n0fU


15 posted on 04/19/2012 7:39:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: SunkenCiv
“Cause she knew what she was doing
She taught me how to walk this way
She told me to
Walk this way, talk this way”

Early Aerosmith fans?

16 posted on 04/19/2012 7:51:35 PM PDT by dog breath
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21 posted on 04/20/2012 2:00:10 AM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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