And Homo sapiens tracks had been identified elsewhere in South Africa, on the Cape east coast ... and the ichnology (trace fossil) record therefore provides what is probably the only viable ...

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, this 350 km stretch of southern African coast looked very different ... potentially damaging the precious fossil tracksites. Many of the sites are of hominin ...

Darwin himself was shaken by their absence. His conclusion was that the fossil record was lacked these transitional stages, because it was so incomplete. That is certainly true in many cases ...

One site even contains the oldest known fossil footprint attributed to our own species. Read more: World's oldest _Homo sapiens_ footprint identified on South ... capacity to record this priceless ...

One site even contains the oldest known fossil footprint attributed to our own species. Read more: World's oldest _Homo sapiens_ footprint identified on South ... capacity to record this priceless ...