Male faces ‘buttressed against punches’ by evolution
A new theory suggests that our male ancestors evolved beefy facial features as a defence against fist fights.
The bones most commonly broken in human punch-ups also gained the most strength in early “hominin” evolution.
They are also the bones that show most divergence between males and females…
But surely the progeny of the young ladies from Newcastle will, in the future, also develop ‘beefy’ faces as a result of their usual Saturday night incidents – although I’ll let you tell them that!
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June 9, 2014 at 11:35 pm