Over the past decade, discussions of the evolution of the earliest human ancestors have
focused on the locomotion of the australopithecines. Recent discoveries in a broad range of …

The evolutionary origin of Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin species previously
known only by skeletal remains from Liang Bua in western Flores, Indonesia, has been …

Ongoing fieldwork at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave has resulted in the
discovery of several new hominin teeth. These include a right upper deciduous canine (dc …

Objectives This study investigates the effect of allometry on the shape of lower dm2 (dm2)
and lower M1 (M1) crown outlines and examines whether the trajectory and magnitude of …

We describe 14 hominin teeth and tooth fragments excavated recently from Swartkrans
Cave (South Africa). The fossils derive from Members 1 (Lower Bank) and 3, from the …

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Teeth are the most common element in the fossil record and play a critical role in taxonomic
assessments. Variability in extant hominoid species is commonly used as a basis to gauge …

As the most abundant and best-preserved remains in the fossil record, teeth have largely
been used in species diagnoses, phylogenetic inferences and dietary reconstructions of …