Human brain evolution, new insight through X-rays

Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 10:01 in Biology & Nature

A paper published today in Science reveals the highest resolution and most accurate X-ray scan ever made of the brain case of an early human ancestor. The insight derived from this data is like a powerful beacon on the hazy landscape of brain evolution across the transition from Australopithecus to Homo.

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