Ask An Anthropologist is an educational resource for students, teachers, parents, and life-long learners. We encourage anyone interested in anthropology to make use of its content.
Becoming human brings together interactive multimedia, research and scholarship to promote greater understanding of the course of human evolution.
We have big brains, but are we born with big brains or do they get big as we grow up? It turns out that it’s a little bit of both. Learn about how our incredible brains grow and find out what limits our brain size.
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Our species, Homo sapiens, are incredibly unique among the species on Earth today.