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Earliest known human burial in Africa
The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and debate1–3. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa and unknown in East Africa1–6....
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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.
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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...
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Open AccessShort 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...
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Open AccessMosaic 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...
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Open AccessThe 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...
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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...
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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...