Earliest hominin cancer: 1.7-million-year-old osteosarcoma from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa

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TIL that a 1.8-1.6 million year old fossilised metacarpal (foot bone) of human lineage, carries the oldest evidence of malignant osteosarcoma (cancer) ever found.

User TheFlyingPigSquadron, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 24 Sep 2016