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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-1-6
pubmed:abstractText
A recent evaluation of upper first molar (M¹) crown size and cusp proportions in the genus Homo (Quam et al. 2009) describes Homo antecessor as maintaining a primitive pattern of cusp proportions, similar to that identified in australopithecines and the earliest members of the genus Homo. These results contrast with those of Gómez-Robles et al. (2007), who described the crown shape in these molars as derived and similar to Neanderthals and European Homo heidelbergensis. The reassessment of these measurements following the same methodology described by Quam et al. (2009) in all the M(1) s that are currently part of the hypodigm of H. antecessor demonstrates that the fossils from TD6 not only have the same cusp proportions identified in later Homo species, but also a strongly reduced metacone and a large hypocone shared with Middle and Upper Pleistocene members of the Neanderthal lineage. The evolutionary significance of these features should be evaluated in light of the results provided by recently discovered dental, cranial, mandibular, and postcranial H. antecessor fossils.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1469-7580
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
© 2010 The Authors. Journal of Anatomy © 2010 Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
218
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
258-62
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Crown size and cusp proportions in Homo antecessor upper first molars. A comment on Quam et al. 2009.
pubmed:affiliation
Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain. aida.gomez@cenieh.es
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't