Home comforts for early man, while women went walkabout

EARLY man preferred to stay at home in a comfy cave than to roam, scientists have learned.

Women, on the other hand, liked to get around two million years ago.

The evidence comes from two cave sites in South Africa, where adjacent communities of now extinct humans once lived.

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