Friday, September 1, 2017

Farming, cheese, chewing changed human skull shape

09/01/2017 04:40 PM EDT

human skull bones

The advent of farming, especially dairy products, had a small but significant effect on the shape of human skulls, according to a recently published study from anthropologists at the University of California, Davis.


Full story at http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2017/08/24/farming-cheese-chewing-changed-human-skull-shape/

Source
University of California, Davis


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