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Scientific Reports, 2023 The long stratigraphic sequence of the Shungura Formation in the Lower Omo Valley documents 3 million years (Ma) of hominin evolution, which, when combined with detailed paleo-depositional environmental data, opens new perspectives for understanding the ...
Anne Delagnes +10 more
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Effects of Instrumentation on Dental Microwear Textures: Reanalysis and Augmentation of an Early Hominin Sample [PDF]
, 2014 Dental microwear texture analysis has been refined to a methodology relying upon scanning confocal microscopy for its advantages of repeatability and standardized quantification.
Ragni, Anna Jacquelyn
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Whole‐bone shape of hominoid manual proximal phalanges
The Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 2, Page 245-270, February 2026.Abstract Functional morphologists have long noted that skeletal adaptations in primate phalanges reflect locomotor behavior. While most studies have successfully used two‐dimensional measurements to quantify general features of phalanx shape, a whole‐bone three‐dimensional analysis may better capture more subtle aspects of phalanx morphology that have ...
Deanna M. Goldstein +7 more
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South African Journal of Science, 2019 The site of the Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa, is one of the richest early hominin fossil-bearing sites in Africa. Recent excavations in the Milner Hall locality have contributed to the discovery of new hominin specimens, including StW 669, a right ...
Bontle Mataboge +4 more
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Fracture in teeth—a diagnostic for inferring bite force and tooth function [PDF]
, 2011 Teeth are brittle and highly susceptible to cracking. We propose that observations of such cracking can be used as a diagnostic tool for predicting bite force and inferring tooth function in living and fossil mammals.
Constantino, Paul J +3 more
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South African Journal of ScienceThe southern African Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene hominin record is abundant and exhibits a high taxonomic diversity with three genera represented: Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo.
Palesa P. Madupe +13 more
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The Importance of Fallback Foods in Primate Ecology and Evolution [PDF]
, 2009 The role of fallback foods in shaping primate ranging, socioecology, and morphology has recently become a topic of particular interest to biological anthropologists.
Constantino, Paul J, Wright, Barth W.
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Taxonomic and sex differences in sagittal cresting among gracile and robust capuchin monkeys
Journal of Anatomy, Volume 248, Issue 1, Page 53-61, January 2026.In this study, I show that there are interspecific differences in the frequency and pattern of sagittal cresting among six capuchin species. Four of the six species show sagittal cresting, with Cebus capucinus showing a different sagittal cresting pattern to that observed in three robust capuchin species. All four crested species show sexual dimorphism
Katharine L. Balolia
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A comparative analysis of the hominin triquetrum (SKX 3498) from Swartkrans, South Africa
South African Journal of Science, 2011 The SKX 3498 triquetrum from Member 2 at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa is the only hominin triquetrum uncovered (and published) thus far from the early Pleistocene hominin fossil record.
Tracy Kivell
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Dental ontogeny in pliocene and early pleistocene hominins.
PLoS ONE, 2015 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 and comparison.
Tanya M Smith +10 more
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