Abstract Though late Middle Pleistocene in age, Homo naledi is characterized by a mosaic
of Australopithecus-like (eg, curved fingers, small brains) and Homo-like (eg, elongated …

Dental functional morphology can inform us on the dietaryadaptations of early hominins and
other fossil primates. Traditionalapproaches to understanding dental form-function …

The reconstruction of diet is important for understanding the paleoecology and evolution of
early hominins. This paper reviews and colligates the fossil evidence for diets of early Homo …

Diet is key to understanding the paleoecology of early hominins. We know little about the
diets of these fossil taxa, however, in part because of a limited fossil record, and in part …

Conventional wisdom ties the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo to
environmental changes that occurred near the end of the Pliocene. The basic idea is that …

Recent humans and their fossil relatives are classified as having thick molar enamel, one of
very few dental traits that distinguish hominins from living African apes. However, little is …

Diet is fundamental to the interaction between an organism and its environment, and is
therefore an important key to understanding ecology and evolution. It should come as no …

The East African hominin Paranthropus boisei was characterized by a suite of craniodental
features that have been widely interpreted as adaptations to a diet that consisted of hard …

This contribution investigates the evolution of diet in the Pan–Homo and hominin clades. It
does this by focusing on 12 variables (nine dental and three mandibular) for which data are …

Objectives Size‐corrected tooth crown measurements were used to estimate phenetic
affinities among Homo naledi (~ 335–236 ka) and 11 other Plio‐Pleistocene and recent …