% pubman genre = article @article{item_3625172, title = {{Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins}}, author = {Hatala, Kevin G. and Roach, Neil T. and Behrensmeyer, Anna K. and Falkingham, Peter L. and Gatesy, Stephen M. and Williams-Hatala, Erin Marie and Feibel, Craig S. and Dalacha, Ibrae and Kirinya, Martin and Linga, Ezekiel and Loki, Richard and Alkoro, Apolo and Longaye, and Longaye, Malmalo and Lonyericho, Emmanuel and Loyapan, Iyole and Nakudo, Nyiber and Nyete, Cyprian and Leakey, Louise N.}, language = {eng}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.ado5275}, publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science}, address = {Washington, D.C.}, year = {2024}, date = {2024-11}, abstract = {{For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record, questions regarding their interspecific interactions remain unanswered. We report the discovery of footprints ({\textasciitilde}1.5 million years old) from Koobi Fora, Kenya, that provide the first evidence of two different patterns of Pleistocene hominin bipedalism appearing on the same footprint surface. New analyses show that this is observed repeatedly across multiple contemporaneous sites in the eastern Turkana Basin. These data indicate a sympatric relationship between Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, suggesting that lake margin habitats were important to both species and highlighting the possible influence of varying levels of coexistence, competition, and niche partitioning in human evolution.}}, journal = {{Science}}, volume = {386}, number = {6725}, pages = {1004--1010}, }