Bournemouth University

School of Applied Sciences

Planet Earth Magazine

Date: 22 October 2010

Professor Matthew Bennett

Planet Earth Magazine

Learn more about ancient footprints from a new article in Planet Earth magazine.

Read about Professor Matthew R Bennett's research into our ancestors' footprints and the development of bipedalism.

Dean of the School of Applied Sciences, Professor Matthew Bennett, has shared his expertise on human footprints and the development of bipedalism, with Planet Earth magazine.

The article explains new techniques to scan footprints, the data from which can be analysed to determine how our ancestors moved.

Professor Bennett shares details of his team’s fascinating research on a 1.5 million-year-old human footprint found in northern Kenya and a recent visit to Namibia.

The Planet Earth article can be viewed on page 24 of the online magazine here.

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