From Newsgroup: sci.anthropology.paleo


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512021

ABSTRACT
Context: This review paper captures the topics and
discussions during a workshop held in April 2023 in
Minden, Nevada, usa regarding the study of pre-adult
hominin fossil specimens.

"Despite decades of research, paleoanthropologists and
anthropologists continue to debate when the life
history signature of the human species evolved. In other
words, what may be uniquely rCLhumanrCY in terms of
maturation cadence, or in the timing and development of
our species? Is our species unusual in the length of
our life stages? Is rCLchild-hoodrCY a life history stage
special to Homo sapiens? Is the adolescent growth spurt
uniquely human? How do these human characteristics
before adulthood provide us with an adaptive
advantage?"

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