Cover of The fossil trail

The fossil trail

how we know what we think we know about human evolution

by Ian Tattersall

1995 276 pages eng

One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung thrown by a colleague) came face to face with a set of ancient footprints captured in stone - the earliest recorded steps …

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