An abundant, balanced dietary intake of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids is an
absolute requirement for sustaining the very rapid expansion of the hominid cerebral cortex …

Archaeological data are frequently cited in support of the idea that big game hunting drove
the evolution of early Homo, mainly through its role in offspring provisioning. This argument …

Much is known about the dental development ofPancompared with that for other extant great
apes. The majority of information available has concentrated either on the emergence times …

For over a century, paleoanthropologists have listed the presence of prolonged periods of
gestation, growth, and maturation, extremely short interbirth intervals, and early weaning …

We documented the spacing and distribution of perikymata on the buccal enamel surface of
fossil hominin anterior teeth with reference to a sample of modern human and modern great …

Abstract In April–May 1983, the late AR Hughes and his field team recovered more than 40
bone fragments and teeth from a single solution pocket of the Sterkfontein Formation. After …

Teeth preserve a record of the way they grow in the form of incremental markings in enamel,
dentine and cementum. These make it possible to reconstruct cellular activity and the timing …

When compared with their recently extinct relatives, living lemurs represent a mere fraction
of a broad radiation that occupied unique niches in the recent past. Among living lemurs …

Dental development was reconstructed in several individuals representing four species of
catarrhine primates—Symphalangus syndactylus, Hylobates lar, Semnopithecus entellus …

This study uses the two developmental fields of dental maturation and femoral growth to
determine if the pattern of growth and development in Neandertals (archaic Homo sapiens) …