50,000-year-old Neanderthal baby found with completely unexpected growth pattern: New fossil rewrites early human biology |
The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early development may have been in our extinct relatives. The remains, dated to around 51,000 to 56,000 years ago, suggest something unusual, as reported by Current Biology. The baby was not small in the way…