The earliest footprints showing evidence of modern human foot anatomy and gait have been unearthed in Kenya.

The 1.5-million-year-old footprints display signs of a pronounced arch and short, aligned toes, in contrast to older footprints.

The size and spacing of the Kenyan markings - attributed to Homo erectus - reflect the height, weight, and walking style of modern humans.

The findings have been published in the journal Science.

The footprints are not the oldest belonging to a member of the human lineage. That title belongs to the 3.7 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis prints found in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1978.

Those prints, however, showed comparatively flat feet and a significantly higher angle between the big toe and the other toes, representative of a foot still adapted to grasping.

Exactly how that more ape-like foot developed into its modern version has remained unclear.

the rest...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7913375.stm


For an evolutionist, the implications and thoughts are a bit more clear in this report.

for the creationist, the differences in feet could be explained by a deformity or "adaptive" trait of a human branch...

For those who have never looked at different people's feet in today's world...

How do you think the differences would be explained in another million years?

Sherpa





Meeting of the Giants October 13, 2007





Campasino





flat feet





high arch





long toes...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/235393483_85603ddbd8.jpg?v=0






feet come in all shapes and sizes...





check these babies out...









http://jsol.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/nacky_foot.jpg?w=222&h=300






there are so many other examples, including of cultures who deliberately shape their feet in grotesque ways through shoe wear that I could go at this all day...

I think that some of the explanations we get from these "science" and "evolution" stories do not express the possibilities that there could be "easily" explained natural variations in these findings anyway.

grz-