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Hatala, KG, Roach, NT, Behrensmeyer, AK, Falkingham, PL, Gatesy, SM, Williams-Hatala, EM, Feibel, CS, Dalacha, I, Kirinya, M, Linga, E, Loki, R, Alkoro, A, Longaye, , Longaye, M, Lonyericho, E, Loyapan, I, Nakudo, N, Nyete, C and Leakey, LN (2024) Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins. Science, 386 (6725). pp. 1004-1010. ISSN 0036-8075
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Abstract
For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record, questions regarding their interspecific interactions remain unanswered. We report the discovery of footprints (~1.5 million years old) from Koobi Fora, Kenya, that provide the first evidence of two different patterns of Pleistocene hominin bipedalism appearing on the same footprint surface. New analyses show that this is observed repeatedly across multiple contemporaneous sites in the eastern Turkana Basin. These data indicate a sympatric relationship between Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, suggesting that lake margin habitats were important to both species and highlighting the possible influence of varying levels of coexistence, competition, and niche partitioning in human evolution.
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| Additional Information: | This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science on 386, 28th November 2024 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado5275 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | General Science & Technology |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology Q Science > QH Natural history Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Biological and Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2024 10:58 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2024 11:00 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1126/science.ado5275 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24985 |
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