Ancient human remains 120,000 years old: 4 months old is already 'superman'

Another shocking feature about Neanderthals - our now extinct "cousins" - has just been revealed in the remains of a child who lived in Croatia 120,000 years ago.

The remains of Neanderthals are mostly just fragments, but scientists were lucky when the baby tooth of a stillborn baby was preserved intact at a site in Krapina, Croatia today. .

Surprisingly, the results of the analysis of a tooth belonging to a baby just over 4 months old, or at most 7 months old, but fully developed , showed that it had begun to grow long before, according to the Daily Mail.

The incisors of Neanderthals children show that it developed up to 4 months earlier than the incisors of children of our species - Photo: Proceedings of The Royal Society B

For us modern humans Homo sapiens, the age at which children appear their first milk teeth is 6-12 months old. However, according to a paper published in Proceedings of The Royal Society B about this remarkable finding, Neanderthals children started teething by an average of four months before modern humans.

According to Phys.org, the description of an international research team led by Dr. Patrick Mahoney from the University of Kent (USA) shows that 4-month-old Neanderthals can completely share meals with their parents with meat, vegetables, grains. This amazing early development is to ensure enough energy to feed their large brains.

Previous studies have shown that Neanderthals' brains were much larger than other species of the genus Human, including our modern Homo sapiens. The evidence also shows that they are a "superman" with a naturally muscular body like rugby players, swimming like a mermaid, skilled hunting and many skills such as weaving and knitting nets that can evolved earlier than humans.

However, this does not mean that Neanderthals were smarter than modern humans because their brains and their cousins ​​Other people completely lacked many special genes that determine the ability to organize tight society and high adaptability. - what created modern civilizations and helped Homo sapiens maintain the lineage through the great catastrophes of the earth.

The Neanderthals went extinct about 30,000 - 40,000 years ago, which is thought to be caused by extreme changes in the planet plus the "invasion" of our modern humans.