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Science 11 April 1980:
Vol. 208. no. 4440, pp. 175 - 176
DOI: 10.1126/science.208.4440.175
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Evolutionary Implications of Pliocene Hominid Footprints

TIM D. WHITE 1

1 Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 94720

Hominid footprints discovered at the Pliocene (3.6 to 3.8 million years ago) site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania represent the earliest evidence of bipedalism in human evolution. This new evidence emphasizes the mosaic pattern of human evolution.

Submitted on November 19, 1979


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