For over a century, paleoanthropologists have listed the presence of prolonged periods of
gestation, growth, and maturation, extremely short interbirth intervals, and early weaning …

The evolution of modern human life history has involved substantial changes in the overall
length of the subadult period, the introduction of a novel early childhood stage, and many …

Recent humans and their fossil relatives are classified as having thick molar enamel, one of
very few dental traits that distinguish hominins from living African apes. However, little is …

Abstract The site of Fumane Cave (western Lessini Mountains, Italy) contains a stratigraphic
sequence spanning the Middle to early Upper Paleolithic. During excavations from 1989 to …

Neanderthals' lives were historically portrayed as highly stressful, shaped by constant
pressures to survive in harsh ecological conditions, thus potentially contributing to their …

The fetal remains from the Ostuni 1 burial (Italy, ca 27 ka) represent a unique opportunity to
explore the prenatal biological parameters, and to reconstruct the possible patho-biography …

Comparing modern humans and Neanderthals, we have previously shown that recent
modern humans (RMH) and Neanderthals differ in anterior root lengths, and that this …

Enamel thickness figures prominently in studies of human evolution, particularly for
taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleodietary reconstruction. Attention has focused on molar …

Despite the general increase in digital techniques for dental morphometric analyses, only a
few methods are available to study worn teeth. Moreover, permanent dentitions are studied …

Dental remains usually represent the mo st common evidence testifying to the life of extinct
taxa in a given region at a given moment. The appropriate assessment, safeguard, and …