Exactly which species of early
human left the trails is unknown because no human remains have turned up at the site.
Not exact matches
To hear glimmers of thought drift over from the
humans at the picnic table to the far
left, or to catch the
trail end of a passionate speech from just down the grassy hill is to be let in, for a second, to someone else's world.
But rather than
trailing animal tracks, Lewis, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is more interested in marks
left behind by
humans.
Over millions of years, our
human and primate ancestors
left a
trail of teeth that she and other paleontologists have followed for clues to our evolutionary history.
The researchers found that, as
humans migrated out of Africa, they
left a
trail of dead elephants and mammoths in their wake.
If they migrate into
humans, hookworms can be responsible for intestinal problems or a condition called cutaneous larval migrans in which the worms
leave itchy, red
trails in the skin as they move under it.
While as
humans we are unable to detect traces of scent
left behind by runaway children or even escaped criminals and thieves, a scent hound is easily able to detect scent
trails by following the scent offered to it on an artifact.
In a
human a hookworm
leaves red spots on the skin that are in a
trail (caused by the larvae).
Concerns of commoditization and
human interference resonate alongside other anxieties of the fractured individual and the frightening nothingness of the morphing sexless
left trailing behind the consequences.