Another way of demonstrating paedomorphosis throughout human evolution, which currently only exists as a thought experiment, would be to abduct the most “average” adult human alive today and then take them back 300,000 years into the past. Finding a person that looked the most like them in that period would likely involve searching among the teenagers, as opposed to the full-grown adults of 300,000 years ago. If we took the adult from our time back 900,000 years in the past, we might find they look more like the 10- or 12-year-olds. At 2 million years in the past, we may be better off
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