Evolution's Youth Movement: Fossil children may harbor clues to humanity's origins

摘要

Anthropologists usually don't find the skeletons of long-dead toddlers when digging into ancient ground. But at Syria's Dederiyah Cave, they did just that in 1993 and again in 1997.rnExcavations at this approximately 60,000-year-old site yielded the partial remains of one small child and the nearly complete skeleton of another. Researchers estimate that both died at around age 2.