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“The Night” de Michele di Rodolfo del Ghirlandaio [1].Hace millones de años, en los albores del universo, Apolo, patrón de las…
Some things never change. Dying terribly from bone cancer, for instance: that’s something humans have been doing from about the…
Author Patrick Randolph-Quinney Reader/Associate Professor in Biological and Forensic Anthropology, University of Central…
Cancer is often viewed as a fundamentally modern and monolithic disease. Many people think its rise and spread has been driven…
George Johnson in The New York Times: Carcinogens abounded 1.7 million years ago in Early Pleistocene times when a nameless…
APPROFONDIMENTO – Una scoperta di alcuni scienziati sudafricani ci pone davanti a un interrogativo molto interessante: il…
Este tumor ósseo tem milhões de anos – e teria sido uma pedra no sapato de seu portador, se houvesse sapatos em um passado tão…
Welcome to the Altmetric High Five! On a monthly basis, my High Five posts examine a selection of the most popular research…
Many thanks to Cynthia Beall for flagging up this interesting Scientific American piece about the discovery of an osteosarcoma…
In two papers published in the South African Journal of Science, researchers say they’ve found the oldest definitive evidence…
An international team of researchers led by scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies…
Not a modern-day disease after all.
Scientists have identified a particularly lethal form of cancer on the fossilized toe bone of an early human relative who lived…
A team of paleontologists led by Dr. Patrick Randolph-Quinney from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in…
It pushes back the date of the earliest known cancer in a human ancestor by more than a million years.
Featured image: Statues of Iguanodon and Megalosaurus on display at the Natural History Museum in London. Photo by Sarah Gibson.
Cancer predates the rise of Homo sapiens some 200,000 years ago. Scientists know that cancer is ancient—evidence of it is found…
A 1.7 million year-old ancient human foot bone found in South Africa shows signs of osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone…