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Isotopic Evidence for Dietary Variability in the Early Hominin Paranthropus robustus [PDF]

Science, 2006
Traditional methods of dietary reconstruction do not allow the investigation of dietary variability within the lifetimes of individual hominins. However, laser ablation stable isotope analysis reveals that the δ 13 C values of Paranthropus robustus individuals often changed seasonally and ...
Matt, Sponheimer, Benjamin H, Passey, Darryl J, de Ruiter, Debbie, Guatelli-Steinberg, Thure E, Cerling, Julia A, Lee-Thorp   +5 more
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A probable genetic origin for pitting enamel hypoplasia on the molars of Paranthropus robustus [PDF]

Journal of Human Evolution, 2019
We report the frequencies of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) and, specifically, pitting enamel hypoplasia (PEH) defects in the teeth of Paranthropus robustus, for comparison with four other South African hominin species and three extant nonhuman primate species.
Ian Towle, Joel D. Irish
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Cortical bone distribution in the femoral neck of Paranthropus robustus

Journal of Human Evolution, 2019
Studies of the australopith (Australopithecus and Paranthropus) proximal femur have increasingly integrated information from the local arrangement of the cortical and cancellous bone to allow functional-biomechanical inferences on the locomotor behavioral patterns.
Cazenave, Marine, Braga, José, Oettlé, Anna, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Heaton, Jason L., Nakatsukasa, Masato, Thackeray, J. Francis, de Beer, Frikkie, Hoffman, Jakobus, Dumoncel, Jean, Macchiarelli, Roberto   +10 more
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Root caries on a Paranthropus robustus third molar from Drimolen [PDF]

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2019
Abstract Objectives Dental caries is often perceived as a modern human disease. However, their presence is documented in many early human groups, various nonhuman primates and, increasingly, our hominin ancestors and relatives.
Towle I., Riga A., Irish J. D., Dori I., Menter C., Moggi-Cecchi J.   +5 more
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Fossil micromammals and the palaeoenvironments of the Paranthropus robustus site of Cooper’s Cave

Historical Biology, 2023
The Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) provides an important fossil record of the evolutionary history of PlioPleistocene hominins. Cooper's Cave deposits have yielded a rich fossil faunal assemblage, as well as six remains attributed to Paranthropus robustus. This study provides the first taxonomic, taphonomic and palaeoecological description
Pierre Linchamps, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Raphaël Cornette, Christiane Denys, Raphaël Hanon, Nompumelelo Maringa, Thalassa Matthews, Christine Steininger   +7 more
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Mechanisms of tooth damage and Paranthropus dietary reconstruction

Biosurface and Biotribology, 2018
According to the current fossil record, the extinct hominin genus Paranthropus and the genus Homo both first appeared ∼2.7 million years ago. Despite this similarity in geological age, Paranthropus evolved enormous postcanine teeth with very thick enamel
Paul Joseph Constantino, Oscar Borrero-Lopez, Oscar Borrero-Lopez, Brian R. Lawn   +3 more
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Human-like hip joint loading in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus [PDF]

Journal of Human Evolution, 2018
Adaptations indicative of habitual bipedalism are present in the earliest recognized hominins. However, debate persists about various aspects of bipedal locomotor behavior in fossil hominins, including the nature of gait kinematics, locomotor variability across different species, and the degree to which various australopith species engaged in arboreal ...
Timothy M. Ryan, Kristian J. Carlson, Adam D. Gordon, Nina Jablonski, Colin N. Shaw, Jay T. Stock   +5 more
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Premolar root and canal variation in South African Plio-Pleistocene specimens attributed to Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus [PDF]

Journal of Human Evolution, 2016
South African hominin fossils attributed to Australopithecus africanus derive from the cave sites of Makapansgat, Sterkfontein, and Taung, from deposits dated between about 2 and 3 million years ago (Ma), while Paranthropus robustus is known from Drimolen, Kromdraai, and Swartkrans, from deposits dated between about 1 and 2 Ma.
Moore, N. Collin, Thackeray, J. Francis, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Skinner, Matthew M.   +3 more
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Homo luzonensis and the role of homoplasy in the morphology of hominin insular species. [PDF]

Cladistics
Abstract Homo luzonensis lived during the upper Pleistocene in the northern Philippines, east of the Wallace line. The few specimens attributed to this species show a mosaic of plesiomorphies for the genus Homo and apomorphies found in upper Pleistocene Homo species.
Gousset P, Bardin J, Rouget I, Mijares AS, Détroit F.   +4 more
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Evaluating the Evolvability of Paranthropus Cranial Morphology in Relation to Feeding Biomechanics. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objective Although disagreement persists as to the precise nature of the diet of Paranthropus, there is a consensus that the food resources consumed by Paranthropus were in some way mechanically challenging to process (i.e., by being “hard” and/or “tough”).
Jung H, Rolian C, Strait DS, Baab KL.
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