#Seeking ancestral commonalities with modern human body type, researchers find stockier answer
“#Seeking ancestral commonalities with modern human body type, researchers find stockier answer” Reconstructed upper body skeleton of the 1.5 million years old Homo erectus youth from West Turkana, Kenya. The ribcage was deeper, wider and shorter than in modern humans, suggesting a stockier body shape and a larger lung volume. Credit: Markus Bastir, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0…