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1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal Coexistence of Two Human Ancestor Species The Discovery Near Lake Turkana On a sun-scorched savanna teeming with life over a million years ago, near the shores of present-day Lake Turkana in Kenya, two distinct hominin s pecies may have coexisted, foraging for survival. The Significance of the Fossilized Foot prints By examining 1.5-million-year-old fossils unearthed from an ancient lakeshore, scientists have identified the first recorded instance of two hominin foot prints from the same  period. This discovery, researchers assert, will advance our understanding of human evolution and the inter play of coo peration and com petition between s pecies. Defining Hominins "Hominin" refers to a modern classification that re presents a subset of hominids, encom passing all extinct and extant s pecies within the human lineage following the divergence from great a pe ancestors a p proximately 6 to 7 million years ago. Insights from the Ancient Fo...