The 3.6 million-year-old footprints that reveal how our ancient male ancestors had more than one mate at a time

you believe that you believe anything these fools will tell you..

How on earth could anyone with a modicum of intelligence reach that conclusion by looking at a set of prehistoric so called footprints? This sounds more like guessology than archaeology.

Assumptions again and again. Reading this I got the feeling they are making a case for the animal kingdom, where they have several mates to ensure offspring to survive to keep the line going. Like so called scientists they assume things because that is how their modern day thinking makes it all seem like the sensible conclusion. They make a theory fit for today's world without verifiable proof.

Typical Daily Mail journalism - this sensational discovery is immediately linked with sex. Click bait, anyone?

Has anyone noticed all the little inch-long impressions in the second photo? It looks to me like finger prints, especially in the lower left hand corner--it looks like three knuckle prints with a thumb print beneath them. That would seem to show that these beings were walking with their knuckles on the ground, like gorillas. If true, that would put them closer to the apes in evolution, than to humans.

Load a crap!

AND YOU KNOW THIS BECAUSE ?????????????? COULD BE GRAN, AUNTIE FLO , MUM IN LAW (PERHAPS NOT ) A FRIEND OR MRS GOBBIT FROM NEXT DOOR PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE NO MORE EXPERTS GUESSSING GUESSING GUESSING

If libs can trace their ancestry to apes of millions of years ago, why are so many enrolled in Ancestrydatcomm?

Big-Foot-o-shopped

When Apes started to become Human they did perhaps have more than one female. Just as in today's world many societies still have more than one wife.

If they are a prehuman species why are you referring to them as a man and women?

We see footprints, they see humpin prints...........must be a lonely job........

We don't know if a tipsy lad in Crewe trying to serenade a lady in the bar will be 'successful'. How on Earth can they make a judgement based on footsteps a million years old?

Gorilla-like? More likely guerilla-like? Mind you we tend to call them extremists or hardliners or some other word nowadays? Surprising that they didn't say they were walking behind him or perhaps they were avoiding his footsteps.

Proof that polygamy is a primitive social arrangement.

Maybe it was another species that humans killed off ?

A really well written article, and easy to make sense of, up to a point. But I am not necessarily going with the harem idea.

Look at the name of who made this article and you will know why they are trying to normalise it.

Absolute rubbish !!!!!!

Way to go grandpa!!