Neanderthal milk tooth (IMAGE)

Goethe University Frankfurt

Neanderthal milk tooth

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Presumably a Neanderthal child lost this tooth 40,000 to 70,000 year ago when his or her permanent teeth came in

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ERC project SUCCESS, University of Bologna, Italy

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