Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When
and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had …

Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions guide tooth development through its early stages and
establish the morphology of the dentin surface upon which enamel will be deposited …

Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first
reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In contrast, great apes wean later …

Recent developmental studies demonstrate that early fossil hominins possessed shorter
growth periods than living humans, implying disparate life histories. Analyses of incremental …

In the 1970s, mid‐Pliocene hominin fossils were found at the sites of Hadar in Ethiopia and
Laetoli in Tanzania. These samples constituted the first substantial evidence for hominins …

The evolution of life history (pace of growth and reproduction) was crucial to ancient hominin
adaptations. The study of dental development facilitates assessment of growth and …

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 …

Dental tissues contain regular microscopic structures believed to result from periodic
variations in the secretion of matrix by enamel‐and dentine‐forming cells. Counts of these …

Mammalian enamel formation is periodic, including fluctuations attributable to the daily
biological clock as well as longer-period oscillations that enigmatically correlate with body …

Until recently, our understanding of the evolution of human growth and development derived
from studies of fossil juveniles that employed extant populations for both age determination …