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Enamel thickness in South African australopithecines: noninvasive evaluation by computed tomography [PDF]

, 1991
Until recently, it has not been possible to systematically study enamel thickness in fossil hominids except by physically sectioning the teeth. Because sectioning studies destroy original specimens, sample sizes will always be low.
Conroy, Glenn C
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Dental Microwear From Natufian Hunter-Gatherers and Early Neolithic Farmers: Comparisons Within and Between Samples [PDF]

, 2006
Microwear patterns from Natufian hunter-gatherers (12,500–10,250 bp) and early Neolithic (10,250–7,500 bp) farmers from northern Israel are correlated with location on facet nine and related to an archaeologically suggested change in food preparation ...
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The ear of the Sima de los Huesos hominins (Atapuerca, Spain)

The Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 7, Page 2410-2424, July 2024.
Abstract Previous studies on the morphology of the inner ear (semicircular canals and cochlea) in the Sima de los Huesos hominin sample have provided important results on the evolution of these structures in the Neandertal lineage. Similarly, studies of the anatomy of the external and middle ear cavities of the Sima de los Huesos hominins have also ...
Mercedes Conde‐Valverde, Ignacio Martínez, Rolf Quam, Juan Luis Arsuaga   +3 more
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Human‐like enamel growth in Homo naledi

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 1, May 2024.
Abstract Objectives A modern pattern (rate and duration) of dental development occurs relatively recently during human evolution. Given the temporal overlap of Homo naledi with the first appearance of fossil Homo sapiens in Africa, this small‐bodied and small‐brained hominin presents an opportunity to elucidate the evolution of enamel growth in the ...
Patrick Mahoney, Gina McFarlane, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Palesa P. Madupe, Mackie C. O'Hara, Keneiloe Molopyane, Enrico Cappellini, John Hawks, Matthew M. Skinner, Lee Berger   +9 more
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A lineage perspective on hominin taxonomy and evolution

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 2024.
Abstract An uncritical reliance on the phylogenetic species concept has led paleoanthropologists to become increasingly typological in their delimitation of new species in the hominin fossil record. As a practical matter, this approach identifies species as diagnosably distinct groups of fossils that share a unique suite of morphological characters but,
Jesse M. Martin, A. B. Leece, Stephanie E. Baker, Andy I. R. Herries, David S. Strait   +4 more
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Chimpanzee subspecies and 'robust' australopithecine holotypes, in the context of comments by Darwin

South African Journal of Science, 2009
On the basis of comparative anatomy (including chimpanzees, gorillas and other primates), Darwin1 suggested that Africa was the continent from which 'progenitors' of humankind evolved. Hominin fossils from this continent proved him correct.
J. Thackeray, S. Prat
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Unravelling the functional biomechanics of dental features and tooth wear [PDF]

, 2013
Most of the morphological features recognized in hominin teeth, particularly the topography of the occlusal surface, are generally interpreted as an evolutionary functional adaptation for mechanical food processing.
Benazzi, Stefano, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Kullmer, Ottmar, Nguyen, Huynh Nhu   +3 more
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The development of chemical approaches to fossil hominin ecology in South Africa

South African Journal of Science
When Dart recognised the fossilised skull of the Taung Child as a hominin ancestor, he also observed that its “sere environment” produced few foods preferred by African apes in equatorial forests.
Julia Lee-Thorp, Matt Sponheimer
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Using springbok (Antidorcas) dietary proxies to reconstruct inferred palaeovegetational changes over 2 million years in Southern Africa [PDF]

, 2018
The reconstruction of past vegetation and climatic conditions of the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng Province, South Africa, has been approached using various proxies (such as micromammals, speleothems, faunal and floral presence and stable carbon isotopes).
Hopley, Philip, Merceron, G., Reynolds, S., Sewell, L., Zipfel, B.   +4 more
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Sterkfontein at 75: review of paleoenvironments, fauna, dating and archaeology from the hominin site of Sterkfontein (Gauteng Province, South Africa). [PDF]

, 2011
Seventy-five years after Robert Broom’s discovery of the first adult Australopithecus in 1936, the Sterkfontein Caves (Gauteng Province, South Africa) remains one of the richest and most informative fossil hominin sites in the world.
Kibii, JM, Reynolds, Sally C.
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