neoteny

Ashley Montagu said that the "Mongoloid skull, whether Chinese or Japanese" is the most neotenized human skull,^[5] and Montagu added that "Chinese peoples" are "perhaps" the best representatives of neoteny out of the Mongoloids.^[40] Montagu further said that the "European" skull was less neotenized than the Mongoloid, with the "Australian Aborigine" skull less neotenized than the European and the Neanderthal skull even less neotenized than the Australian Aborigine skull.^[5] Montagu said that humans have more neotenized skulls than Australopithecus^[17] and gorillas.^[40]