Facing a Violent Past: New Study Suggests Evolution of Faces a Result of Need to Weather Punches During Arguments
Sunday, June 8, 2014 - 23:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The findings in the paper, titled "Protective buttressing of the hominin face," present an alternative to the previous long-held hypothesis that the evolution of the robust faces of our early ancestors resulted largely from the need to chew hard-to-crush foods such as nuts.