Wednesday, May 29, 2013

A Modern Stone Age Family? By John Noble Wilford.

A Modern Stone Age Family? A Neanderthal’s Molar Suggests Early Weaning. By John Noble Wilford. New York Times, May 22, 2013. Also here.

Barium distributions in teeth reveal early-life dietary transitions in primates. By Christine Austin, Tanya M. Smith, et al. Nature, published online, May 22, 2013.


Researchers have concluded, from the tooth of one Neanderthal child, that the infant was weaned off of its mother’s milk earlier
 than primates and a vast majority of modern humans. Field Museum, Chicago.