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 …

This paper is structured in two parts. The first briefly reviews a number of lines of published
evidence, including direct experimental evidence, supporting the contention that enamel …

Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and
the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated 2005 …

The present paper evaluates the enamel growth tracks as tools in the chronological
mapping of dental development, with special reference to hominids. Dental enamel consists …

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 …

The majority of dental development studies in modern humans are based on radiographic
analysis. In comparison, very few full histological studies have been carried out. In the …

This survey of dental microstructure studies reviews recent methods used to quantify
developmental variables (daily secretion rate, periodicity of long-period lines, extension rate …

" The Teeth of Mammalian Vertebrates is an important reference for researchers in dentistry,
comparative morphology, anthropology, and vertebrate palaeontology, and those with an …

Afropithecus turkanensis, a 17–17.5 million year old large-bodied hominoid from Kenya, has
previously been reported to be the oldest known thick-enamelled Miocene ape. Most …

Danny was roaming the Fond Vert area of the village with two of his closest friends on a
rainy Saturday morning. They had eaten their fill of mangoes, after pelting a heavily laden …