Antiquity of social traits characteristically human

Southern Ape from Afar, now Ethiopia - Australopithecus Afarensis.

Artists depiction of early hominid pair walking across an ash field below a volcano which erupted 3.2 million years ago. The footprints they left behind are almost indistinguishable from human footprints, and different from any of the primates living now. They walked upright.

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