{"id":921,"date":"2009-02-27T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=921"},"modified":"2009-03-28T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:06:56","slug":"earliest-human-footprints-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Earliest Human Footprints Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ancient footprints found at Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago. Published as the cover story in the Feb. 27 issue of the journal Science<\/em>,<\/a> the anatomical interpretation is the conclusion of Rutgers Professor John W.K. Harris* and an international team of colleagues.<\/p>\n

Based on size of the footprints and their modern anatomical characteristics, the authors attribute the prints to the hominid Homo ergaster, or early Homo erectus as it is more generally known. This was the first hominid to have had the same body proportions (longer legs and shorter arms) as modern Homo sapiens. Various H. ergaster or H. erectus remains have been found in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa, with dates consistent with the Ileret footprints.<\/p>\n

Let’s wait and see what kind of mental gymnastics the IDers will try to perform in a attempt to explain this discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ancient footprints found at Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago. Published as the cover story in the Feb. 27 issue … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-eR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1138,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1138","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":0},"title":"Nova Series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Becoming Human\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Part Two Updated","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"November 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Nova\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new three part special \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Becoming Human\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0part two airs tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 Part 2. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Birth of Humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, profiles the early species of humans. In \"Birth of Humanity,\" the second part of the three-part series \"Becoming Human,\" NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\"Turkana Boy\"\u00e2\u20ac\u201can astonishingly complete specimen of Homo\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=223","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":1},"title":"Florida twist on Creation Museum","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"An article in the Orlando Sentinel talks about a theme park designer who made rides for Universal and had also made displays at the new Kentucky Creation \"Museum.\" Sad, sad stuff, but some good quotes from professor Lawrence Krauss. And the headline is funny: Inherit the spin. \"We don't find\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2110,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2110","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":2},"title":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your Inner Fish\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Part 3","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"April 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Part three of Neil Shubin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s three part series, Your Inner Fish, will air tonight on Wednesday April 23rd at 10: pm (EST) on your local Florida PBS station. This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s program is titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your Inner monkey\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and delves back into our primate past. Shubin travels from the badlands of Ethiopia,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2110#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":629,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=629","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":3},"title":"Canine Tooth Strength Provides Clues To Early Human Ancestors","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"June 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The researchers at\u00c2\u00a0 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine\u00c2\u00a0reported on an initial examination of the function of the shape of canine teeth in primates.This is the first published comparative analysis of canine strength for primates.\"Understanding more about the function of canine teeth can lead to new models for understanding human evolution\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=629#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":614,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=614","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":4},"title":"Butterfly, motivation, Lucy, controversy","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"==> Sometimes I just sit back and think, \"well, yeah, I guess they have to come from somewhere.\" Butterflies used in science classes have to come from somewhere, but it's just not something I've ever thought about before now. Meet the Cousins. They run a butterfly farm. As butterfly farmers,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=614#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1307,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1307","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":5},"title":"Florida leading the way!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Fordham Institute conducts regular reviews of states' science standards and oftentimes pays close attention to the treatment of evolution in those standards. Another review is actively in the works, and a reviewer wrote a blog post praising one state that has really stood out so far for its outstanding\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1307#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}