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Because the child’s head needs to squeeze through the birth canal during delivery, humans have evolved with a soft skull composed of many different bony plates that meet at regions called cranial “sutures”. These sutures also allow the skull to grow rapidly during the first year of life, at which time the bones start to slowly fuse together.
