New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the driving force in human evolution.
- Professor of Anthropology, Western Washington University
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm.
Le cerveau se développait-il aussi rapidement pendant la grossesse chez nos ancêtres que chez l’espèce humaine ? De nouveaux indices fossiles et in utero.
Using a new equation based on today’s primates, scientists can take a few molar teeth from an extinct fossil species and reconstruct exactly how fast their offspring grew during gestation.
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