New footprints from Laetoli (Tanzania) provide evidence for marked body size variation in early hominins
Laetoli is a well-known palaeontological locality in northern Tanzania whose outstanding record includes the earliest hominin footprints in the world (3.66 million years old), discovered in 1978 at Site G and attributed to Australopithecus afarensis. Here, we report hominin tracks unearthed in the n...
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Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2016-12-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/19568 |