Ancient Teeth Inform Humans' Arrival in Europe (4 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Ancient Teeth Inform Humans' Arrival in Europe (4 of 8)

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Upper Palaeolithic modern human infant skull from Sungir (left) and the Neandertal infant skull of Roc de Marsal (right). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 24, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Stefano Benazzi at the University of Bologna in Ravenna, Italy, and colleagues was titled, "The Makers of the Protoaurignacian and Implications for Neandertal Extinction."

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[Credit: Shara E. Bailey, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, USA]

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