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Cranial evidence for human-like helpless infancy in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis
Yousuke Kaifu, Wataru Yano, Makoto Hikosaka et al., 2026. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 293(2075): 20261055.
Uses deformational plagiocephaly, measured on 1,504 ape and human crania, as a marker of helpless infancy and finds it in some Indonesian H. erectus crania and in H. floresiensis.
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A shared developmental trait linking H. floresiensis with Indonesian H. erectus; also bears on LB1's asymmetry.
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Kaifu, Y., Yano, W., Hikosaka, M., Shimizu, D., Nishimura, T., Kubo, D., Suriyanto, R. A., & Jatmiko (2026). Cranial evidence for human-like helpless infancy in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 293(2075): 20261055. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.1055
@article{kaifu2026infancy,
author = {Kaifu, Yousuke and Yano, Wataru and Hikosaka, Makoto and Shimizu, Daisuke and Nishimura, Takeshi and Kubo, Daisuke and Suriyanto, Rusyad Adi and {Jatmiko}},
title = {Cranial evidence for human-like helpless infancy in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis},
journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B 293(2075): 20261055},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1098/rspb.2026.1055},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.1055}
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Kaifu, Yousuke et al.. “Cranial evidence for human-like helpless infancy in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 293(2075): 20261055 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.1055.