Nearly 1-million-year-old European footprints found
Impressions of possible Neandertal ancestors make waves in England
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SOLE SURVIVORS Footprints impressed into hardened sediment along England’s southeastern coast belonged to human ancestors that lived at least 780,000 years ago.
Martin Bates