These marks convinced him that this young hominid had been butchered and eaten by another member of its tribe (perhaps a hungry uncle). Our ancestors, Dart concluded, were cannibalistic killers.

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Wendy-Ann died at her Essex flat last Friday aged 61Credit: Olivia West But she died at her Essex flat last Friday aged 61, having spent her final years as “a hermit”, following battles with ...

Newly discovered fossil footprints have revealed that at least two different hominid species walked along the muddy, submerged edge of a lake in Kenya’s Turkana Basin at the same time, approximately 1 ...