First Steps at Laetoli
Origin Stories
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What Is the Next Logical Choice?
In 1978 Mary Leakey's team came back to the site two years later in 1978 they found what people think of as the lie-totally footprints trackway G. An 80-foot-long track made up of 54 clearly hominin footprints those prints did match Lucy's feet. Instead of being a left hominin print it's a right bear print and they aren't cross-stepping at all. The way bears toes compared to human toes could account for that model walk cross-stepped in the strange prints of trackway A.
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