The reach of tribology has expanded in diverse fields and tribology related research
activities have seen immense growth during the last decade. This review takes stock of the …

Diet plays an incontrovertible role in primate evolution, affecting anatomy, growth and
development, behavior, and social structure. It should come as no surprise that a myriad of …

Quantifying speciation times during human evolution is fundamental as it provides a
timescale to test for the correlation between key evolutionary transitions and extrinsic factors …

Recent advances in neurobiology, paleontology, and paleogenetics allow us to associate
changes in brain size and organization with three main “moments” of increased behavioral …

Objectives In humans it has been shown that abrasive particles in the diet result in increased
tooth wear and less intense chewing behavior, both of which decrease chewing efficiency …

More than 150 hominin teeth, dated to∼ 330–241 thousand years ago, were recovered
during the 2013–2015 excavations of the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system …

Dental topography is a widely used method for quantifying dental morphology and inferring
dietary ecology in animals. Differences in methodology have brought into question the …

Abstract The earliest Vallesian (∼ 11.2 Ma) sites of Castell de Barberà (CB) and Creu de
Conill 20 (CCN20), in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula), are similarly well …

A frequent source of debate in paleoanthropology concerns the taxonomic unity of fossil
assemblages, with many hominin samples exhibiting elevated levels of variation that can be …

The ecology, and particularly the diet, of treeshrews (order Scandentia) is poorly understood
compared to that of their close relatives, the primates. This stems partially from treeshrews …