Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

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Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

The concept arose almost by chance when Ian Corfe was probing shrew teeth at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France (synchrotrons are high-powered instruments that use X-ray beams). His ...

The study of fossilized teeth has indicated that an extended childhood may have triggered the evolution of bigger brains.

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

The images were created at the cutting-edge European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. The thymus is ...

Learn about the properties of synchrotron radiation and its wide range of applications in physics, materials science and chemistry with this invaluable reference. This thorough text describes the ...

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