Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives. But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? A team of U.S. and Australian researchers reports ...
Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives. But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? A team of U.S. and Australian researchers reports ...
Fossil teeth can be used to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned using a new technique developed to study teeth from human infants and monkeys (Nature, May 22, 2013). Using the technique, the ...