First Steps at Laetoli
Origin Stories
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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