Neanderthals were n’t smoking cigaret . They were n’t breathing in contamination . They were n’t eating work on foods . They were n’t dealing with pesticide . Nope . But plain , Neanderthals still got cancer . This 120,000 - year - old ivory sherd break a cancerous tumour . Neanderthals , they ’re just like us .
The case of hempen dysplasia in this Neanderthal osseous tissue is think to be the older tumor ever find . It predates other tumors by a 100,000 geezerhood , which ai n’t no small chunk of alteration . David Frayer , an anthropologist at the University of Kansas and co - source of the newspaper revealing this find , theorizes :
“ They did n’t have pesticides , but they probably were sleep in caves with burning fires . They were plausibly inhale a flock of smoking from the caves . So the strain was not completely free of pollutants — but certainly , these Neanderthals were n’t smoking cigarettes . ”
To discover the tumor , the researchers used a micro - CT scan machine which cuts up an paradigm into different build . The 1.18 - column inch long neandertal costa bone was slice to 500 trenchant frames which let researchers consider every micrometer of the ivory , thus divulge the tumor . [ PLOS ONEviaNational GeographicviaNeatorama ]
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