Fossil finger records key to ancestors' behaviour
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 06:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists, in collaboration with researchers at the universities of Southampton and Calgary, used finger ratios from fossilised skeletal remains of early apes and extinct hominins, as indicators of the levels of exposure species had to prenatal androgens - a group of hormones that is important in the development of masculine characteristics such as aggression and promiscuity...