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Published online 6 December 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011206-10
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Ancestors skip adolescence
Dental diary of a teenage hominid aged 1.5 million years.
Our early ancestors never went through the awkward age, suggests a new analysis of dental records. Extended youth may have emerged relatively late in human evolution.
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