Oxygen isotope analyses of skeletal remains (18 O/16 O, δ 18 O) are a powerful tool for
exploring major themes in bioarchaeology (the study of biological archaeological remains) …

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 …

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Most of what we know about the timing of human enamel formation comes from radiographic
studies on children of known age. Here, we present new longitudinal data derived from a …

Paleontologists are quite recent newcomers among the users of X-ray synchrotron imaging
techniques at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Studies of the external …

This text focuses on the principles and methods of using growth layers formed in teeth and
bones of mammals to make a judgement on essential traits of the animal's life history. In …

Temporal changes in the carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of an animal are an
environmental and behavioral input signal that is recorded into the enamel of developing …

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 …

The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human
evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found across every continent …

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 …