Comments on: Fossil Hominoid Tracks http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/fossiltrax/ for Bigfoot, Loch Ness, and More Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:51:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Jeremy_Wells http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/fossiltrax/#comment-4038 Fri, 05 May 2006 17:35:58 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/fossiltrax/#comment-4038 But my aunt had toes that didn't look human at all (if you looked at her tracks, she would have looked four toed because of the way her feet were shaped with the little toe laying on top of the toe next to it.) My toes are short and round, my girlfriends are almost like little fingers. Are the morphological distances in the middle and distal phalanges enough to make this assumption? What about individual variation? (granted, you are using the geological location of the find as support as well, but I'm asking a more generic type question I suppose. Beyond assumptions for weight, and calculating height based on stride, just how much info can we glean from footprints?) But my aunt had toes that didn’t look human at all (if you looked at her tracks, she would have looked four toed because of the way her feet were shaped with the little toe laying on top of the toe next to it.) My toes are short and round, my girlfriends are almost like little fingers.
Are the morphological distances in the middle and distal phalanges enough to make this assumption? What about individual variation? (granted, you are using the geological location of the find as support as well, but I’m asking a more generic type question I suppose. Beyond assumptions for weight, and calculating height based on stride, just how much info can we glean from footprints?)

]]> by: scmarlowe http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/fossiltrax/#comment-3779 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:33:12 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/fossiltrax/#comment-3779 Loren, Given the NSW attribution, they could be from the Australian "Mungo Man" and not one of the "Out of Africa" hominins. There are some obvious morphological differences when you compare the NSW prints to the Laetoli and Neanderthal tracks -- most promininently the elongated middle and distal phalanges. Loren, Given the NSW attribution, they could be from the Australian “Mungo Man” and not one of the “Out of Africa” hominins.

There are some obvious morphological differences when you compare the NSW prints to the Laetoli and Neanderthal tracks — most promininently the elongated middle and distal phalanges.

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