Tooth microstructure tracks the pace of human life-history evolution
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Tooth microstructure tracks the pace of human life-history evolution.
A number of fundamental milestones define the pace at which animals develop, mature, reproduce and age. These include the length of gestation, the age at weaning and at sexual maturity, the number of offspring produced over a lifetime and the length of life itself. Because a time-scale for dental development can be retrieved from the internal structure of teeth and many of these life-history va...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3583