UC Davis Newswatch: Skull Changes from Neanderthals to Humans

2/16/2009; 1 minutes

A new study that compares the skulls of modern humans with Neandertals shows that most variations between them are the result of random changes that occur over time. So chance, rather than natural selection, best explains why they look differently. The research team, led by UC Davis paleoanthropologist Tim Weaver, concluded that genet (#15952)

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