Starting with the onset of the last glaciation approximately 100,000 years ago and continuing
to the end of the Late Pleistocene approximately 10,000 years ago, human tooth size began …

This paper discusses the well-documented acceleration which occurred in the reduction of
human dental structure during the post-Pleistocene. It suggests that the process can be …

Published evidence indicates sharp reductions in the hominid dentition following the end of
the Pleistocene. These reductions, both in size and in morphological complexity, have …

Temporal patterns of tooth wear rates (loss of crown height) and dental pathologies (caries,
abscess, and tooth loss) are estimated for 40 Native American populations of the upper Ohio …

Evolutionary trends for dental reduction are presented for European Upper Paleolithic and
Mesolithic samples. The analysis demonstrates that the greatest decrease in tooth size …

Dental reduction has been sufficiently widespread among human populations to render the
phenomenon of reduced tooth size worthy of scientific explanation. One of the most …

A longstanding controversy in paleoanthropology surrounds the question of whether
Neandertals shared the prolonged growth periods of modern humans. To address this …

CL Brace proposes that the reduction in the size of the anterior teeth in hominid phytogeny
resulted from the accumulation of random mutations when these teeth became selectively …

In recent studies of heavily worn teeth of California Indian skeletal remains, considerable
difference was seen in types and degree of wear. This variation in dental attrition was …

Except for the front end of the dental arch, tooth size remained at approximately the same
level throughout the Middle Pleistocene. The Krapina Neanderthals at the end of the last …