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Neanderthal brains developed more slowly─── 07:36 Sat, 23 Sep 2017
London - A new study has shown that Neanderthal brains developed more slowly than modern man.
BBC reports the research, published in the journal Science, shows how a Neanderthal child's skeleton suggests that its brain was still developing at a time when the brains of modern human children are fully formed.
Unlike other apes and more primitive humans, Homo sapiens has an extended period of childhood lasting several years.
Before this finding, scientists believed that modern humans were the slowest growing species. Neanderthals also taking slightly longer, suggest that both species inherited this growth pattern from a now extinct common ancestor.
BBC
