Yearly Archives: 2020

Neanderthal babies grew up and similarly weaned modern humans

3D reconstruction of three Neanderthal milk teeth analyzed. Credit: Federico Lugli Neanderthals behave similarly to modern humans in raising their children, whose growth rate was similar to that of Homo sapiens. Thanks to a combination of physico-chemical and histological analysis of three Neonderthal milk teeth, the researchers were able to …

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