Around half a million years ago, when our human ancestors were still confined to the African continent, it really was an eat or be eaten world. In a cave in North Africa, researchers have found what appears to be an early hominin bone dating to the Middle Pleistocene that shows evidence of having been gnawed on by a large carnivore, likely a hyena. “Although encounters and confrontations between archaic humans and large predators of this time period in North Africa must have been...
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