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March 21, 2013

Skulls of early humans carry telltale signs of inbreeding
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 21, 2013
Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests. The skull, known as Xujiayao 11, has an unusual perforation through the top of the brain case - an enlarged parietal foramen (EPF) or "hole in the skull" - that is ... read more

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