Temperature and humidity of ancestral environment are linked to differences in nostril width across human populations
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 14:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Big, small, broad, narrow, long or short, turned up, pug, hooked, bulbous or prominent, humans inherit their nose shape from their parents, but ultimately, the shape of someone's nose and that of their parents was formed by a long process of adaptation to our local climate, according to an international team of researchers.