Neanderthal bearing teeth

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Growth lines inside a Neanderthal tooth (left -- diagonally running lines) and on the outside (right -- horizontal curved lines). Counts and measurements of these lines helped to determine that the child was approximately 8-years-old when it died. Cr ...
Growth lines inside a Neanderthal tooth (left -- diagonally running lines) and on the outside (right -- horizontal curved lines). Counts and measurements of these lines helped to determine that the child was approximately 8-years-old when it died. Credit: Tanya Smith, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis).


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