Another scholar, Richard Wrangham, in Catching Fire, tracks the origin of cooking over fire back to Homo erectus, the immediate precursor of Homo sapiens, some 1.8 million years ago. (fieryfoodscentral.com)
They had been French champions three times in seven years, cup winners once and winners in 1953 of the Latin Cup, the immediate precursor of Hanot's baby. (worldsoccer.com)
However, this is exactly the sort of tail we see in the earliest birds and their immediate precursors, which means avian flight evolved in animals with long tails. (sciencedaily.com)