Foot Fossil of Juvenile Hominin Exhibits Ape-Like Features (IMAGE)

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Foot Fossil of Juvenile Hominin Exhibits Ape-Like Features

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The Dikika foot is one part of a partial skeleton of a 3.32-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis child.

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Zeray Alemseged

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