Bright-Sized: Skull Study Shows Eye-Sockets Have Grown Larger at Higher Latitudes

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

People who live farther from the equator have larger eye sockets than their tropical counterparts, a new study finds. And as people inhabited higher and higher latitudes , eye socket size grew along with the northerly or southerly extent of their migrations. [More]

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