Scientists found out that the shape of a brain of the person did not change for 160 thousand years

Moscow, on August 2 - newspaper "Argumenty i fakty". Skulls of modern people in a form differ from skulls of predecessors, however, according to new research, it did not affect brain evolution, report "Noviye Izvestia". The form of a cranium changed because of transformation of the face of the person which became thinner. At Zurich university made a new hypothesis of the reasons of transformation. During research it became clear that skulls of modern children and Homo sapiens who lived 160 thousand years ago, can quite be compared. Faces of people grow approximately till 20 years, and the brain reaches approximately...