.5 MILLION YEARS FOOT

Kenya's 1.5-million-year-old footprint showed people walking on the same footsteps as they are today, anatomically many years ago. Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University in England stated that the 1.5-million-year-old footprints in the two sedimentary layers near the Ileret region in northern Kenya are the oldest demonstrations that have basically the same anatomy as the modern man. Bennett emphasized that footprints contain information on the forms and structures of soft tissues that are not normally found in fossilized bones. Professor Bennett numbered footprints in Kenya, scanned them on the computer and judged it so that the comparison between modern people and fossilized old people's footprints would be impartial. The photograph of one of the 1.5 million year old footprints adorns the cover of the last issue of Science magazine.