In this review we attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominin life history from
extant and fossil evidence. We utilize demographic life history theory and distinguish life …

Two new developments promise to greatly improve our ability to reconstruct the evolution of
the human life cycle: 1. the introduction of the comparative methodology of life history into …

We report here revised chronological ages at death of immature fossil hominids
demonstrating for the first time that Plio-Pleistocene hominids had markedly abbreviated …

Abstract Development of the dentition is critically integrated into the life cycle in living
mammals. Recent work on dental development has given rise to three separate lines of …

Two general mechanisms of sex determination have been identified among gonochoristic
vertebrates: environmental sex determination where offspring become male or female in …

The general factors underlying the formation of growth layers and incremental markings in
hard tissues are reviewed with particular reference to fossil hominid tooth enamel. The …

In this work allometry and heterochrony are integrated in an analysis of ontogenic and
interspecific morphological patterns in the African apes. The relationship between the …

A number of fundamental milestones define the pace at which animals develop, mature,
reproduce and age. These include the length of gestation, the age at weaning and at sexual …

New studies on the jaws of hominids, based on incremental growth markings in teeth, can
now provide an absolute timescale with which to calibrate dental developmental events …

Teeth comprise a significant portion of the hominid fossil record, and for this reason they
have been the subject of numerous morphometric analyses. To date, almost all studies of …