Biogeochemical methods using stable isotopes and trace elements have been increasingly
developed and applied to reconstruct modern and ancient breastfeeding and weaning …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

A substantial number of the large, slow-growing fauna on several continents were famously
lost in the Pleistocene extinctions. At present, many slow-growing, long-lived mammals are …

Small human body size, or the 'pygmy'phenotype, is characteristic of certain African,
Southeast Asian and South American populations. The convergent evolution of this …

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 …

Teeth as a biomarker of past chemical exposure : Current Opinion in Pediatrics Teeth as a
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Teeth are one of the best preserved and most commonly recovered elements in primate
fossil assemblages. Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic hypotheses often rely on …