How common are these feet? We have one set of footprints from this time and they were made by someone with this syndrome? Not impossible but highly unlikely.you mean like these??I think we can agree that the footprints are not from chimps, they were most likely humanoid. As you wrote, "they are still relatively splayed compared to the tracks of living humans" so we also agree the beings that left them were not quite the humans of today.Do you know of any bipedal chimps? Dogs can walk on two legs, are they bipedal?I guarantee, no one who understans anything about human evolution would ever believe that the Laetoli footprints meant chimps started walking bipedal.
Wrong haha. "The famous Laetoli footprints attributed to Australopithecus afarensis are bipedal, but they are still relatively splayed compared to the tracks of living humans."
The emergence of humans
Chimps and apes are not bipedal. We also know that their skull capacities didn't increase from those of old fossils. If the present is the key to the past, then the chimps/apes in the past did not become bipedal either. Thus, it contradicts the Laetoli footprints being chimps or apes. They were most likely human like I said.
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