Fossil Offers Indications of Human Brain Evolution

Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk and a group of anthropological researchers have found two significant features in the Taung fossil — the first australopithecine ever discovered — suggesting that brain evolution was a result of a complex set of interrelated dynamics in childbirth among new bipeds. The results of their research were published May 7 in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For more information, click here to read the full article.