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Joel Kontinen
According to evolution, the first cancer in humans occurred 1.7 million years ago. This occurre around "1.7 million years ago. This individual, likely of the species Paranthropus robustus or Homo ergaster, lived with a malignant tumor in their left toe bone. Archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains inside Swartkrans cave, a limestone deposit in South Africa that's often called the Cradle of Humankind for being home to the largest concentration of human relative remains in the world."
This evolution bases story does away with the Fall of Man in Genesis 4,
Source:
Nalewicki, Jennifer, 2023, What's the oldest known case of cancer in humans? Live Science 8 May,