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Nearly 3 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, and for half that time they were butchering each other - a new paper says 1.45 million years of killing each other for food.
The cuts were inflicted by stone tools, leading researchers to believe the ancient human relative was butchered and eaten by one of their own 1.5 million years ago in what is now Kenya.