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Ancient Bone Shows Evidence Of Cancer In Human Ancestor
Ancient Bone Shows Evidence Of Cancer In Human Ancestor
A bone from a human ancestor that died between 1.8 million and 1.6 million years ago shows evidence of cancer, a newly published study finds.It is the oldest known example of a malignant tumor in a human ancestor.The bone belonged to a hominin, an extinct relative of modern humans that lived and died in what is now South Africa.The foot bone, specifically the metatarsal that runs between the ankle and the pinky toe, was originally excavated between 1960 and 1980 from the Swartkrans cave, part of a World Heritage Site in South Africa called the Cradle of Humankind for its many hominin bones.
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Fossil is Evidence of Earliest Human Cancer
Fossil is Evidence of Earliest Human Cancer
The research was recently published in the South African Journal of Science."You can opt for the paleo diet, you can have as clean a living environment as you want, but the capacity for these diseases is ancient and it's within us regardless of what you do to yourselves," said study co-author Edward Odes of the University of the Witwatersrand, in a National Geographic article.The fossilized foot bone, specifically the metatarsal that runs between the ankle and the smallest toe, was originally excavated between 1960 and 1980 from the Swartkrans cave, of a World Heritage site in South Africa.But when two scientists at the Radiography and Tomography Section of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation reexamined the bone with a method called micro-CT imaging they discovered a tumor on the bone was not benign, but malignant.
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Ancient Bone Shows Evidence Of Cancer In Human Ancestor : The Two-Way : NPR
Ancient Bone Shows Evidence Of Cancer In Human Ancestor : The Two-Way : NPR
Ancient Bone Shows Evidence Of Cancer In Human Ancestori toggle caption Patrick Randolph-Quinney (UCLan) Patrick Randolph-Quinney (UCLan)A bone from a human ancestor that died between 1.8 million and 1.6 million years ago shows evidence of cancer, a newly published study finds.It is the oldest known example of a malignant tumor in a human ancestor.The bone belonged to a hominin, an extinct relative of modern humans that lived and died in what is now South Africa.The foot bone, specifically the metatarsal that runs between the ankle and the pinky toe, was originally excavated between 1960 and 1980 from the Swartkrans cave, part of a World Heritage Site in South Africa called the Cradle of Humankind for its many hominin bones.