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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.

Baby steps: this ancient skull is helping us trace the path that led to modern childhood

Tanya M. Smith, Griffith University; Philipp Gunz, and Zeray Alemseged, University of Chicago

Our findings reveal the slowing down of brain development in our ape-like ancestors began more than three million years ago.

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