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Footprints are thought to belong to the species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei.
The footprints were embedded in dried mud near a lake in northern Kenya and buried in sediment at a prominent fossil site.
The discovery raises questions about what kind of relationship and interactions the two species had.
It adds to growing understanding that ancient human relatives likely interacted and co-existed.
The study shows that ancient human species interacted across different habitats over the past 7 million years of evolution.
The evolutionary pathway to modern humans is filled with side branches and species like Paranthropus boisei, which represent an evolutionary dead end.
The study doesn't address interbreeding, but it does show more clearly that older species overlapped and had more interaction than previously understood.
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