Contact: Tanya M. Smith
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Fig. 1: Growth Lines Inside a Neanderthal Tooth

Caption: Growth lines inside a Neanderthal tooth (left -- diagonally running lines) and on the outside (right -- horizontal curved lines). Counts and measurements of these lines helped to determine that the child was approximately 8-years-old when it died.

Credit: Tanya Smith, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

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