Objectives Non‐human primate growth trajectories are often used to estimate the age and
life history traits of fossil taxa. The exclusive use of chimpanzee growth patterns to estimate …

Data from three African field sites on Pan troglodytes demonstrate an unambiguous pattern
of a slower growth rate in wild vs. captive chimpanzee populations. A revised dental growth …

Reconstruction of life history variables of fossil hominids on the basis of dental development
requires understanding of and comparison with the pattern and timing of dental …

Developmental studies consistently suggest that teeth are more buffered from the
environment than other skeletal elements. The surprising finding of late tooth eruption in wild …

The pattern and rate of dental development are critical components of the life history of
primates. Much recent research has focused on dental development in chimpanzees and …

Abstract Development of the dentition is critically integrated into the life cycle in living
mammals. Recent work on dental development has given rise to three separate lines of …

Life-history inference is an important aim of paleoprimatology, but life histories cannot be
discerned directly from the fossil record. Among extant primates, the timing of many life …

In 1993, we organized and co-chaired a symposium on hominoid ontogeny at the 62nd
annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Toronto, Canada …

The developing dentition has and continues to be an important source of information in
assessing the phylogeny and ontogeny of our fossil ancestors. Of particular issue is whether …

Until recently, our understanding of the evolution of human growth and development derived
from studies of fossil juveniles that employed extant populations for both age determination …