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Author Topic: Homo erectus birthed large-brained babies?  (Read 900 times)
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« on: November 16, 2008, 02:15:07 AM »

"A new Homo erectus fossil suggests that females had large, wide pelvises in order to deliver large-brained babies."

A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia
Scott W. Simpson, Jay Quade, Naomi E. Levin, Robert Butler, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Melanie Everett, and Sileshi Semaw (14 November 2008)
Science 322 (5904), 1089. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1163592]

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/322/5904/1089

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7721999.stm

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/nsf-ts111408.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/iu-ppo111108.php
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