Oldest Ever Human Genetic Evidence Clarifies Dispute Over Our Ancestors University Of Copenhagen
Ancestor worship is far more ubiquitous in human culture than belief in a creator god. The romance of consuming like our ancestors, what ever that indicates, can obscure ethical considerations in a haze of nostalgia. New evidence from Kenya suggests early hominins were roasting meat more than fires 1.5 million years ago. The discovery pushes back proof of fire use by hundreds of thousands of years, and lends weight to the notion that cooked food helped trigger the evolution of…