Skulls of early humans carry telltale signs of inbreeding
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 17:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research suggests.