But Howard Hughes, strange, shy, intense and beetle-browed, fell in love with them, and decided that much of the money he was dispensing through Hollywood in the 1940s should go towards advancing them.
Two years ago another Harvard researcher, Tanya Smith, found that by the time we first faced our beetle-browed cousins, their childhoods were not only briefer than ours, they were shrinking possibly an evolutionary "effort" to continue the species by getting to childbearing age sooner.