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Wednesday 19 June 2019

A Morphological Adaptation? Smartphones Now Transforming the Human Skeleton

[Waking Times]: Modern life is transforming the human skeleton. Humans are now developing a bone spike at the back of the head caused by regularly looking down at their smartphones, according to a recent study.

The phenomenon is called an external occipital protuberance: a lump on the back of the head believed to be caused by the body reacting to smartphone use by growing new bone layers on the back of the skull...read more>>>...