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Are they perhaps venturing closer in search of water? Or are there more remote sources they could avail themselves of? I was just thinking in light of this years heat they might be pressed for water. 

Its funny how this video portrays the very opposite of the other, with a group of H.erectus in the vicinity of a lone Paranthropus as opposed to the group of Paranthropus prints and the prints of a lone H.erectus. its of note that this video states Paranthropus as a much shorter figure in comparison to H.e. while the other  video derives a much taller stature for Paranthropus from the stride length of the trackway..   Trogluddite..I'd guess the voice over is indeed AI for not only did it refer to Paranthropus robustus as a subspecies of Paranthropus when Paranthropus is in fact the genus name, so robustus is a species name, it also referred to Louis B Leakey as "Loo-ee" Leakey rather than "Loo-is" Leakey which seems like a typical AI "reading error"   An interesting video as well! Thanks for posting it! 

Well, that's interesting and does open up some potentials. If the track ways are indicating a larger size, do they also imply the degree of "upright-ness"? And how would this impact their capacity for longer distance mobility. Is it possible they or some member of Paranthropus were able to take part in the ongoing exodus from Africa along with other hominids of the time, such as erectus?  If this occurred when sea levels had dropped we would have little chance of finding evidence of such range expansions, but if H.erectus was on the move, whats to say Paranthropus  wouldn't as well, perhaps even following or joining H.e for increased safety and foraging.its a stretch to be sure, but it does illustrate potential pathways for the simultaneous expansion of multiple species outside of Africa, which could then result in multiple derived forms further out rather than just our own hominid line.

Well one would expect there to be considerable commonalities with modern human DNA, at least more than seen with chimps or orangs, but I'd think there would also be outlier components absent for our own. Just how consistent these might be from sample to sample could hinge on any number of possible factors, but its possible there might be notable clusters of aberrant chains not seen in modern humans or with the prominence as seen in the samples, if that makes any sense. Presuming the premise of the Pleistocene mega fauna hominid proves out, it would be possible to determine the point(s) of divergence from a shared line just as they do for any genetics based taxonomic research. Though I have no idea what the cost of such analysis runs, much less that for multiple samples. But were that to be undertaken we might well discover a different verse field of various forms created through the waves of migration as determined by the shifting phases of glaciation and resultant sea levels. Or maybe it would be seen that most of those existing today are all derived from a relatively small number of survivors that made it through the antigen bottleneck that may have arose with the arrival of the Europeans and their diseases which could have easily reduced sasquatch populations like they did those of the indigenous peoples, thereby greatly diminishing genetic diversity amongst them. Who knows what might be learned from such pursuits? 

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