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The Meaning of Mangabey Molars (And Premolars). [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT The postcanine teeth of mangabeys (members of Cercocebus and Lophocebus) have figured prominently in discussions about the relationship between hard‐object feeding and dental form. Grey‐cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) and sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) both have thickly enameled posterior teeth.
Guatelli-Steinberg D, Scott McGraw W.
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Growth and development of the third permanent molar in Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans, South Africa. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Third permanent molars (M3s) are the last tooth to form but have not been used to estimate age at dental maturation in early fossil hominins because direct histological evidence for the timing of their growth has been lacking. We investigated an isolated
Dean C, Zanolli C, Le Cabec A, Tawane M, Garrevoet J, Mazurier A, Macchiarelli R.   +6 more
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New hominin dental remains from the ∼2.04–1.95 Ma Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa

Annals of Human Biology, 2023
Background The Drimolen Palaeocave site is situated within the UNESCO Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa World Heritage Area and has yielded numerous hominin fossils since its discovery in 1992.
A. B. Leece, J. M. Martin, S. Baker, C. Wilson, D. S. Strait, G. T. Schwartz, A. I. R. Herries   +6 more
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Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis

eLife, 2021
The evolution of bipedalism and reduced reliance on arboreality in hominins resulted in larger lower limb joints relative to the joints of the upper limb. The pattern and timing of this transition, however, remains unresolved.
Anjali M Prabhat, Catherine K Miller, Thomas Cody Prang, Jeffrey Spear, Scott A Williams, Jeremy M DeSilva   +5 more
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Fossil mammals from the Gondolin Dump A ex situ hominin deposits, South Africa [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
The Gondolin palaeokarstic system, located in the UNESCO Fossil Hominids of South Africa World Heritage Site, has been sporadically excavated since the 1970s. Sampling of ex situ dumpsites in 1997 recovered the only two fossil hominin specimens recovered
Justin W. Adams
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The dental enamel proteome of Paranthropus robustus

, 2023
International audienceIt has been consistently observed that protein fragments survive beyond the diagenetic limits of DNA, allowing for the recovery of biomolecular information deeper in time, even from temperate and subtropical climates ...
Hlazo, Nomawethu, Cappellini, Enrico, Taurozzi, Alberto, Ackermann, Rebecca, Madupe, Palesa, Rüther, Patrick Leopold, Mackie, Meaghan, Patramanis, Ioannis, Welker, Frido, Tawane, Mirriam, Zanolli, Clément, Schroeder, Lauren, Racimo, Fernando, Koenig, Claire, Olsen, Jesper, Velgaard   +14 more
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Dental caries in South African fossil hominins

South African Journal of Science, 2021
Once considered rare in fossil hominins, caries has recently been reported in several hominin species, requiring a new assessment of this condition during human evolution.
Ian Towle, Joel D. Irish, Isabelle De Groote, Christianne Fernée, Carolina Loch   +4 more
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Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African <i>Paranthropus</i>. [PDF]

Science
Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far.
Madupe PP, Koenig C, Patramanis I, Rüther PL, Hlazo N, Mackie M, Tawane M, Krueger J, Taurozzi AJ, Troché G, Kibii J, Pickering R, Dickinson MR, Sahle Y, Kgotleng D, Musiba C, Manthi F, Bell L, DuPlessis M, Gilbert C, Zipfel B, Kuderna LFK, Lizano E, Welker F, Kyriakidou P, Cox J, Mollereau C, Tokarski C, Blackburn J, Ramos-Madrigal J, Marques-Bonet T, Penkman K, Zanolli C, Schroeder L, Racimo F, Olsen JV, Ackermann RR, Cappellini E.   +37 more
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The Equidae from Cooper’s D, an early Pleistocene fossil locality in Gauteng, South Africa [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Cooper’s D is a fossil locality in the Bloubank Valley close to other important sites such as Sterkfontein and Kromdraai in Gauteng, South Africa. The fossil deposits of Cooper’s D date to 1.38 ± 0.11 Ma.
Shaw Badenhorst, Christine M. Steininger
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Hard-object feeding in sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and interpretation of early hominin feeding ecology. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Morphology of the dentofacial complex of early hominins has figured prominently in the inference of their dietary adaptations. Recent theoretical analysis of craniofacial morphology of Australopithecus africanus proposes that skull form in this taxon ...
David J Daegling, W Scott McGraw, Peter S Ungar, James D Pampush, Anna E Vick, E Anderson Bitty   +5 more
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