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Mysterious fossil footprints may cast doubt on human evolution timeline: 

We share plenty of features with apes, but the shape of our feet isn't one of them. So that makes the discovery of human-like footprints dating back 5.7 million years – a time when our ancestors were thought to still be getting around on ape-like feet – a surprising one. Further confounding the mystery is the fact that these prints were found in the Greek islands, implying hominins left Africa much earlier than our current narrative suggests.

 

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Interestingly, it may have been easier to get to the location of these fossils, from Africa, around 5.7 million years ago.

"The Mediterranean Salinity Crisis (MSC) ...began approximately 6 million years ago (MYA) and lasted until around 5.3 MYA – a time span of well over a half million years."

"Scientists believe that by 5.59 MYA, the ocean floor had been raised high enough to become an area of land that completely separated the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean."

The timing suggests Crete and Africa may have been more closely linked when those imprints were made.

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