Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents
Our evolutionary relatives may have inherited short, deep rib cages from their ancestors
![Neandertal partial skeleton](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/100620_bb_neaderthal_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Digital reconstructions indicate that Neandertal babies and young children, represented here by the partial skeleton of a roughly 2.5-year-old individual found in France in 1961, already had stocky chests typical of adult Neandertals.
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