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To: Little Ray
To go with your skulls, it is interesting to note that an infant chimp looks much more human than an adult chimp.

Yes. I think this is taken to be what they call an "infantilism" or a "juvenilism"--I forget exactly--in human evolution. We've evolved to retain some baby-ape look throughout our lives.

121 posted on 08/20/2003 7:13:33 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Neoteny.
122 posted on 08/20/2003 7:51:05 AM PDT by forsnax5
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