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    Earliest known human burial in Africa

    The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and debate13. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa and unknown in East Africa16....

    María Martinón-Torres, Francesco d’Errico, Elena Santos, Ana Álvaro Gallo in Nature (2021)

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    Author Correction: The dental proteome of Homo antecessor

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

    Frido Welker, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Petra Gutenbrunner, Meaghan Mackie in Nature (2020)

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    The dental proteome of Homo antecessor

    The phylogenetic relationships between hominins of the Early Pleistocene epoch in Eurasia, such as Homo antecessor, and hominins that appear later in the fossil record during the Middle Pleistocene epoch, such as...

    Frido Welker, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Petra Gutenbrunner, Meaghan Mackie in Nature (2020)

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    Short and long period growth markers of enamel formation distinguish European Pleistocene hominins

    Characterizing dental development in fossil hominins is important for distinguishing between them and for establishing where and when the slow overall growth and development of modern humans appeared. Dental d...

    Mario Modesto-Mata, M. Christopher Dean, Rodrigo S. Lacruz in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Mosaic dental morphology in a terminal Pleistocene hominin from Dushan Cave in southern China

    Recent studies reveal high degrees of morphological diversity in Late Pleistocene humans from East Asia. This variability was interpreted as complex demographic patterns with several migrations and possible su...

    Wei Liao, Song **ng, Dawei Li, María Martinón-Torres, **ujie Wu in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    The fossil teeth of the Peking Man

    This study provides new original data, including the endostructure of most Zhoukoudian H. erectus teeth preserved to date, since the publication of Black in 1927 and Weidenreich in 1937. The new evidence ratifies...

    Song **ng, María Martinón-Torres, José María Bermúdez de Castro in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

    A collection of 47 unequivocally modern human teeth from a cave in southern China shows that modern humans were in the region at least 80,000 years ago, and possibly as long as 120,000 years ago, which is twic...

    Wu Liu, María Martinón-Torres, Yan-jun Cai, Song **ng, Hao-wen Tong, Shu-wen Pei in Nature (2015)

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    The first hominin of Europe

    One of the most debated topics in stone-age archaeology is the date of the earliest human occupation of Europe. This has been frustratingly hard to establish, because the ages of the oldest-known occupation si...

    Eudald Carbonell, José M. Bermúdez de Castro, Josep M. Parés in Nature (2008)