In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging ...

[3D Images: Exploring the Human Brain] To help solve this mystery ... The researchers also noted these skull differences likely did not reflect any differences at the time of an infant's birth ...

Instead, random "genetic drift" is the likeliest reason for these skull differences. Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its ...

It’s the biggest fossil human skull I’ve ever seen ... than with any extinct group. All visible differences between humans living across the world today are a much more recent development ...

The skull is the topmost section of the human skeleton ... Skull abnormalities can then lead to facial differences. A cleft palate is a common but usually treatable skull abnormality.

and modern human skulls. They found that, besides Neanderthals and humans already showing clear differences from birth, humans stop growing much earlier than their cousins. One way to explain the ...

The fragments of the "archaic" human skull consist of two ... 160,000 years ago—by several anatomical differences. These include a much thicker skull, prominent brow ridges and the lack of ...

The strange skull appeared soon after the Japanese invaded ... Even within a species, she says, some variation is expected. Differences in sex, age of the individual, regional adaptations, age ...

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