News From the Field Prehistoric Pelvis Offers Clues to Human Development
November 13, 2008
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Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis, discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, has led researchers to speculate that early man was better equipped to produce larger-brained babies than first thought. The actual fossils remain in Ethiopia.
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