Oldest human hair found in fossil.

Feb 12, 2009 00:44

"Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung, according to a new study that describes the first non-bony material in the early human fossil record."

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/10/oldest-human-hair.html

I thought this was a interesting article that reminds us how we were not free from predation(not that we are now)and it gives some interesting possibilities of what this find could mean.
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