http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...re6/index.html

by Christopher P Sloan:

"Meet the Dikika Baby: a three-year-old from the dawn of humanity. Her discovery holds clues to the origins of childhood.

"The skull of the Dikika baby, a 3.3-million-year-old infant discovered by Ethiopian paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged. The find is the most complete ancient infant and arguably the best fossil of its species, Australopithecus afarensis, ever found."

Lots more at the link...

The same material on Scientific American would have cost me a $40 membership!

JimB