Baby steps: this ancient skull is helping us trace the path that led to modern childhood
- Written by Tanya M. Smith, Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
The original Dikika child skull (left), a 3D model produced with synchrotron scanning (middle), and a model corrected for distortion during fossilisation (right).Gunz et al. (2020) / Science Advances. , Author provided
Within our extended primate family consisting of lemurs, monkeys, and apes, humans have the largest brains. Our closest living...
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