What's the Chin Good For?

The answer could be right under our noses.

By Jeff Wheelwright
Oct 29, 2015 12:00 AMApr 17, 2020 9:19 PM
Monkey Human Chins - Shutterstock
(Credits: left, apple2499/Shutterstock; right, Bulin/Shutterstock)

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For more than a century, anthropologists have wondered why we possess a chin when apes and our Homo ancestors are chinless. The chin sticks out, so to speak, as a distinguishing human trait. As such, experts have numerous theories about the chin’s evolutionary purpose. We present the best in Science Smackdown.

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