A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry suggests that early human ancestors of the genus Australopithecus ...

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Prior to this study, the earliest accepted evidence of humans cooking only dated to about 170,000 years, the scientists write in the study. Although charred food remains had been found much further ...