Neandertal people do not grow faster than modern people

Some anthropologists argue that Neandertals are different from modern humans due to rapid growth in short childhood. However, the analysis of two Neandertal molars was contrary to this assumption.

Neandertal exhibition at the Eyzies Museum in France (photo: HTV)

Researchers from Britain, France and Italy have used X-ray imaging techniques to observe inside the upper teeth in three-dimensional space, then compare with modern teeth. The analysis of the microstructure inside the teeth has proved that Neandertal's childhood time is similar to ours.

A year ago, another international study comparing the patterns on the tooth enamel of Neandertal and modern people also came to the same conclusion.

In 2004, scientists Fernando Ramirez Rozzi (France) and José Maria Bermudez de Castro (Spain) studied the growth of teeth in many extinct families and in modern people made conclusions. contradictory.

They claim that these prehistoric people became adults at the age of 15, 3 to 5 years earlier than modern people and argued that this difference was one of the reasons why Neandertal and modern people could not deliver together.

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