When your very young and your head is soft people can use binds to elongate the head. This can have an impact on the shape of the head generations down. Some tribes today still use head binding today and have long head's going backwards. the practice was also done in places like France until recent centuries.
I have come across three main types of head binding. One for making the head go back further, One for widening the head and the other where the head is made taller. It goes without saying that all skulls properly investigated have been found to be human in origin.
I often wonder how far head binding goes back and just how much of a role relative to other types of genetic adaption has this practice had.
This issue relates to a bigger issue in the history of evolution. How much Nature is due to behaviours and habit forming and how much is more internal and happening at cellular and sub cellular level. Thing is self conditioned evolution we have had more choice over compared to whats going on at the microscopic level and I have not found much in terms of science papers covering this issue.
I have come across three main types of head binding. One for making the head go back further, One for widening the head and the other where the head is made taller. It goes without saying that all skulls properly investigated have been found to be human in origin.
I often wonder how far head binding goes back and just how much of a role relative to other types of genetic adaption has this practice had.
This issue relates to a bigger issue in the history of evolution. How much Nature is due to behaviours and habit forming and how much is more internal and happening at cellular and sub cellular level. Thing is self conditioned evolution we have had more choice over compared to whats going on at the microscopic level and I have not found much in terms of science papers covering this issue.
