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Feb 14, 2024 · Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. ... Our ancestors have been eating each other for a million years or more. ... 12,000-year-old stones may be ...
Jun 26, 2023 · Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one another. In a new study published today, June 26, in Scientific Reports, National Museum of Natural History paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner and her co-authors describe nine cut marks on a 1.45 million ...
Jun 26, 2023 · A recent discovery in a Kenyan museum—previously unnoticed cut marks on a 1.45-million-year-old shin bone—may be the oldest evidence of ancient human relatives butchering and presumably eating ...
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Jun 27, 2023 · “The information we have tells us that hominins were likely eating other hominins at least 1.45 million years ago,” Pobiner said. “There are numerous other examples of species from the human evolutionary tree consuming each other for nutrition, but this fossil suggests that our species’ relatives were eating each other to survive further into the past than we recognized.”
Jun 27, 2023 · Nine cut marks on a fossilized shin bone are the oldest clear evidence of human relatives using stone tools to butcher and likely eat each other, according to a new study. "Based on the location ...
Jul 14, 2023 · Cuts made from stone tools found on a hominin fossil led researchers to the conclusion that Homo sapiens’ relatives were butchering and eating each other. Molds and 3D scans helped researchers ...
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Jun 26, 2023 · Our ancient ancestors likely had a bizarrely odd trait of butchering each other some 1.45 million years ago. A team of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History experts examined nine deep cut ...
