Breastfeeding time? Our ancestors carried it on until the babies were 6 years old

Illustration of the mother-infant bond of Australopithecus africanus/Garcia and Joannes-Boyau

Illustration of the mother-infant bond of Australopithecus africanus/Garcia and Joannes-Boyau Source: Garcia and Joannes-Boyau

This happened two million years ago.


The Australopithecus Africanus is one of our ancestors, extinct for almost two million years. We still know very little about it, but thanks to the results of a recent research by a team of international researchers published in the prestigious scientific journal "Nature", today we have new information.

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