Discussing the results, Craig Feibel — a professor within the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Anthropology at the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, and a contributing author to the study featured in the journal Science – stated, “This establishes without a doubt that not just one, but two different hominins were traversing the same ground, practically within hours of one another.”
Feibel further noted that, “The notion that they existed at the same time may not come as a shock. However, this is the first instance proving it. I believe that’s truly significant.” The clearest proof that the researchers were encountering two separate
