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An evaluation of dental radiograph accuracy in the measurement of enamel thicknessF E Grine
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
Arch Oral Biol 46:1117-25. 2001..Quantitative data on enamel thickness from studies that have employed lateral radiographs should be viewed with circumspection...- Late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and modern human originsF E Grine
Departments of Anthropology and Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
Science 315:226-9. 2007..The Hofmeyr cranium is consistent with the hypothesis that UP Eurasians descended from a population that emigrated from sub-Saharan Africa in the Late Pleistocene... - Molar enamel thickness in the chacma baboon, Papio ursinus (Kerr 1792)F E Grine
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 128:812-22. 2005.... - Molar microwear in Praeanthropus afarensis: evidence for dietary stasis through time and under diverse paleoecological conditionsFrederick E Grine
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, NY 11794, USA
J Hum Evol 51:297-319. 2006.... - Enamel thickness of deciduous and permanent molars in modern Homo sapiensF E Grine
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 4364, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 126:14-31. 2005..The present data suggest that the human dentition is not predisposed to develop a helicoidal wear plane through the disposition of molar enamel thickness... - Error rates in dental microwear quantification using scanning electron microscopyF E Grine
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794 4364, USA
Scanning 24:144-53. 2002..In view of the error introduced by the use of different methods, we suggest that a consistent technique, such as offered by the Microware software package, be adopted by current researchers to establish a common microwear database... - Additional human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1999-2000 excavations)Frederick E Grine
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA
J Hum Evol 42:293-302. 2002..The morphology of the Blombos Cave di is comparable to MSA homologues from the nearby, and presumably somewhat younger site of Die Kelders Cave 1... 
Craniofacial biomechanics and functional and dietary inferences in hominin paleontologyFrederick E Grine
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
J Hum Evol 58:293-308. 2010....- Dental microwear and diets of African early HomoPeter S Ungar
Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
J Hum Evol 50:78-95. 2006..erectus and Swartkrans Member 1 individuals ate, at least occasionally, more brittle or tough items than other fossil hominins studied... 
Molar microwear textures and the diets of Australopithecus anamensis and Australopithecus afarensisPeter S Ungar
Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Old Main 330, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:3345-54. 2010....- Further new hominin fossils from the Kibish Formation, southwestern EthiopiaOsbjorn M Pearson
Department of Anthropology, MSC 01 1040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
J Hum Evol 55:444-7. 2008..The other specimens derive from Chad's Hominid Site (CHS), and derive from either Member III or IV, which constrains their age between approximately 8.6 and approximately 104 ka... - Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct homininsFrederick E Grine
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 148:285-317. 2012..boisei). The dietary signals derived from microwear and isotope chemistry are sometimes at odds with inferences from biomechanical approaches, a potentially disquieting conundrum that is particularly evident for several species... - Molar microwear and dietary reconstructions of fossil cercopithecoidea from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of South AfricaSireen El-Zaatari
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
J Hum Evol 49:180-205. 2005..Finally, the microwear analyses suggest that the extinct cercopithecoid species did not necessarily have diets similar to those of their closest living relatives... - The enigmatic molar from Gondolin, South Africa: implications for Paranthropus paleobiologyFrederick E Grine
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
J Hum Evol 63:597-609. 2012..robustus. This, in turn, suggests that large, presumptive male, specimens are rare, and that the levels of size variation (sexual dimorphism) previously ascribed to this species are likely to be gross underestimates... - Morphometric variation in the papionin muzzle and the biochronology of the South African Plio-Pleistocene karst cave depositsChristopher C Gilbert
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8277, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 141:418-29. 2010..The suggestion that the muzzle morphology of fossil papionins attests to a considerable and previously unrecognized temporal depth of the South African karst cave sites is unwarranted... - Size variation in early human mandibles and molars from Klasies River, South Africa: comparison with other middle and late Pleistocene assemblages and with modern humansDanielle F Royer
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 140:312-23. 2009..These results suggest that the reduced levels of dimorphism in Neandertals and living humans may have developed independently, though larger fossil samples are needed to test this hypothesis... - Sex at Sterkfontein: 'Mrs. Ples' is still an adult femaleFrederick E Grine
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
J Hum Evol 62:593-604. 2012..There is no evidence to contradict the assertion that 'Mrs. Ples' is an adult female... - Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South AfricaFrederick E Grine
Departments of Anthropology and Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 4364, USA
J Hum Evol 59:1-15. 2010..This reconstruction provides a more complete picture of the Hofmeyr cranium and serves as a basis for more comprehensive morphometric comparisons... - Inferring hominoid and early hominid phylogeny using craniodental characters: the role of fossil taxaDavid S Strait
Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
J Hum Evol 47:399-452. 2004..garhi is either the sister taxon or direct ancestor of the genus Homo. Phylogenetic relationships indicate that Australopithecus is paraphyletic. Thus, A. anamensis and A. garhi should be allocated to new genera... - Seasonal mortality patterns in non-human primates: implications for variation in selection pressures across environmentsJan F Gogarten
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
Evolution 66:3252-66. 2012..Applied to a wider array of taxa, analyses of seasonal mortality patterns may aid understanding of life-history evolution and selection pressures acting across a broad spectrum of environments and spatial and temporal scales... - A description of the Omo I postcranial skeleton, including newly discovered fossilsOsbjorn M Pearson
Department of Anthropology, MSC 01 1040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
J Hum Evol 55:421-37. 2008..The morphology of the auricular surface of the os coxae suggests a young adult age... - Assessment of the accuracy of dental enamel thickness measurements using microfocal X-ray computed tomographyAnthony J Olejniczak
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 288:263-75. 2006..10 mm) is difficult to resolve adequately in raw mCT images based on pixel values alone. Therefore, caution must be exercised in the application of mCT to the study of fossilized teeth... - Dental microwear and diet of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boiseiPeter S Ungar
Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2044. 2008..The apparent discrepancy between microwear and functional anatomy is consistent with the idea that P. boisei presents a hominin example of Liem's Paradox, wherein a highly derived morphology need not reflect a specialized diet... - Cladistic analysis of early Homo crania from Swartkrans and Sterkfontein, South AfricaHeather F Smith
School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, P O Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287 2402, United States
J Hum Evol 54:684-704. 2008..In no case was an exclusive sister relationship between either South African OTU and a particular species of Homo supported statistically. Both South African OTUs differ from H. habilis in the fewest number of cladistic characters... - Early hominid dental remains from Members 4 and 5 of the Sterkfontein Formation (1966-1996 excavations): catalogue, individual associations, morphological descriptions and initial metrical analysisJacopo Moggi-Cecchi
Laboratori di Antropologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Università di Firenze via del Proconsolo, 12, 50122 Firenze, Italy
J Hum Evol 50:239-328. 2006..boisei; it shows overall similar levels of variability to A. afarensis and higher levels than A. robustus. These results, per se, do not provide evidence of the existence of multiple species in the Sterkfontein Member 4 sample... - Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil homininsRobert S Scott
1] Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA [2] *These authors contributed equally to this work
Nature 436:693-5. 2005..africanus. This suggests that A. africanus ate more tough foods and P. robustus consumed more hard and brittle items, but that both had variable and overlapping diets... - Morphology of the enamel-dentine junction in sections of anthropoid primate maxillary molarsAnthony J Olejniczak
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
J Hum Evol 53:292-301. 2007..When considered in conjunction with aspects of molar morphology, such as developmental features and enamel thickness, EDJ shape may be a useful tool for the taxonomic assessment of fossil molars... - Robusticity and sexual dimorphism in the postcranium of modern hunter-gatherers from AustraliaKristian J Carlson
Department of Anatomy, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY 11568 8000, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 134:9-23. 2007..Thus, elevated postcranial robusticity and sexually dimorphic mobility do not always characterize hunter-gatherers...