The species Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus left their footprints in a lake in Kenya confirming that they lived at the same time 1.5 million years ago. Another study revealed the discovery of a new extinct human species.
A group of scientists found through two large studies, one in Kenya published by Science magazine and another in China published by Nature Communications, which two human species extinct they coexisted in other times.
Through the recruitment of fossil footprints on the lake shore Turkanain Kenya, managed to demonstrate that the species Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus, they coexisted in the same time and space a few years ago 1.5 million years.
He discovery points out that the ancestor species of current humans and monkeys mark the first closest and closest evidence of direct interaction between both hominids.
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Kevin G. Hatala, Chatham University
What the discovery in Kenya revealed
“Fossil traces are exciting because they provide fascinating information about the evolution of anatomy and human locomotion, as well as providing clues about the behavior and environment of ancient humans,” he said Kevin HatalaProfessor of Biology at Chatham University, in Pittsburh, United States, and lead author of the study.
The footprints, which appeared on the ancient shores of Lake Turkana, in Kenya, demonstrated that the two hominids different people walked on the same surface just a few hours apart.
Craig Feibelauthor of the study and professor at Rutgers University in the United States, stated that it is most likely that both shared the same habitats and even themselves challenges and survivals.
A new human species in Asia
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Hawaii from the United States, carried out a study that allowed them to determine the discovery of a new human species extinct call Homo juluensisas published in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
The investigation revealed that this species lived almost 200,000 years in East Asia and extinguished a few ago 50,000. They dedicated their time to make tools stone, hunt horses and use animal body parts to achieve their survival.
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