Fossil Peach (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Fossil Peach (1 of 3)

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Homo erectus, a long-extinct hominid species, may have enjoyed peaches much like those we eat today. Peach fossils more than 2.5 million years old have been discovered in China, showing that the wild ancestors of today's peaches were already well-established before either Homo erectus or modern humans arrived on the scene.

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Rebecca Wilf

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