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Peering into Little Foot’s 3.67-million-year-old brain

December 18, 2018 by

MicroCT scans of the Australopithecus fossil known as Little Foot shows that the brain of this ancient human relative was small and shows features that are similar to our own brain and others that are closer to our ancestor shared with living chimpanzees.

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