Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ancient human ancestor had size 9 feet


Homo ergaster tracks have been found in Kenya
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They are well-preserved and help fill in the picture of hominid locomotion through the past 1.5 million years. Yet I'm sure Young-Earth Creationists will call them ape footprints (Read the article linked above to see why this is impossible.) or claim they are fakes or are prints from modern humans. Some way, they have to work it so the earth is only 6,000 years old. Good luck, folks.
Homo ergaster
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Homo ergaster
Fossil range: Pleistocene
Skull KNM-ER 3733 discovered by Bernard Ngeneo in 1975 (Kenya)
Skull KNM-ER 3733 discovered by Bernard Ngeneo in 1975 (Kenya)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. ergaster
Binomial name
Homo ergaster
Groves & Mazak, 1975

Homo ergaster ("working man") is an extinct hominin species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with the advent of the lower Pleistocene and the cooling of the global climate.

See a video about the footprint discovery here.

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