Australopithecus africanus Had Similar Dental Issues As Us
Ian Towle of John Moores University and colleagues published an interesting paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology that illuminates …
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The Krapina Neanderthals Used Toothpicks
Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology recently published discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on 130,000 year old Krapina Neanderthal teeth. …
Why Do Women Have More Cavities?
Razib has chimed in on the latest piece of research to come from John Lukacs, “Fertility and Agriculture Accentuate Sex …
A Faster Rate of Dental Development in the Scladina Neandertal
I have been really anticipating the following study. The first press releases came out in March and in October, I …
Synchrotron Microtomography Analysis of Human vs. Neanderthal Tooth Development
In an upcoming publication in the Journal of Human Evolution will be an interesting study that should get all y’all …
Dental Hygeine among Neandertals some 60,000 years ago
From Christine Kenneally and John Hawks comes this cool finding of two Neandertal molars from around 63,400 years old that …
