The Extinct Human Species That Was Smarter Than Us
Writing by Webmaster on Wednesday, 26 of March , 2008 at 10:17 pm - - 86 views
The super-intelligent Boskops had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads.
“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams,” says John Merrick in the play The Elephant Man. He might have been speaking for the Boskops, an almost forgotten group of early humans who lived in southern Africa between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago. Judging from fossil remains, scientists say the Boskops were similar to modern humans but had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads that held brains about 30 percent larger than our own.
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