Earliest Human Cancer Found in 1.7-Million-Year-Old Bone

Many thanks to Cynthia Beall for flagging up this interesting Scientific American piece about the discovery of an osteosarcoma in the toe bone of an as yet unidentified hominin discovered in the Swartkrans Cave and dated to around 1.7 million years ago. The source paper is from the South African Journal of Science. Popular accounts […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/2aqvziN