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Mahoney P, McFarlane G, Smith BH, et al. Growth of Neanderthal infants from Krapina (120-130 ka), Croatia. Proc Biol Sci. 2021;288(1963):20212079doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2079.
Mahoney, P., McFarlane, G., Smith, B. H., Miszkiewicz, J. J., Cerrito, P., Liversidge, H., Mancini, L., Dreossi, D., Veneziano, A., Bernardini, F., Cristiani, E., Behie, A., Coppa, A., Bondioli, L., Frayer, D. W., Radovčić, D., & Nava, A. (2021). Growth of Neanderthal infants from Krapina (120-130 ka), Croatia. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 288(1963), 20212079. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2079
Mahoney, Patrick, et al. "Growth of Neanderthal infants from Krapina (120-130 ka), Croatia." Proceedings. Biological sciences vol. 288,1963 (2021): 20212079. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2079
Mahoney P, McFarlane G, Smith BH, Miszkiewicz JJ, Cerrito P, Liversidge H, Mancini L, Dreossi D, Veneziano A, Bernardini F, Cristiani E, Behie A, Coppa A, Bondioli L, Frayer DW, Radovčić D, Nava A. Growth of Neanderthal infants from Krapina (120-130 ka), Croatia. Proc Biol Sci. 2021 Nov 24;288(1963):20212079. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2079. Epub 2021 Nov 24. PMID: 34814754; PMCID: PMC8611323.
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Proc Biol Sci. 2021 Nov 24;288(1963):20212079. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2079. Epub 2021 Nov 24.

Growth of Neanderthal infants from Krapina (120-130 ka), Croatia.

Proceedings. Biological sciences

Patrick Mahoney, Gina McFarlane, B Holly Smith, Justyna J Miszkiewicz, Paola Cerrito, Helen Liversidge, Lucia Mancini, Diego Dreossi, Alessio Veneziano, Federico Bernardini, Emanuela Cristiani, Alison Behie, Alfredo Coppa, Luca Bondioli, David W Frayer, Davorka Radovčić, Alessia Nava

Affiliations

  1. Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
  2. Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
  3. Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  4. School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
  5. School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia.
  6. Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
  7. Department of Molecular Pathobiology, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, NY, USA.
  8. Institute of Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, Turner Street, London.
  9. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Trieste, 34149, Italy.
  10. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
  11. Department of Humanistic Studies, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy.
  12. Multidisciplinary Laboratory, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
  13. Diet and ANcient TEchnology Laboratory, Department of Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy.
  14. Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', Rome, 00185, Italy.
  15. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  16. Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  17. Servizio di Bioarcheologia, Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, 00144, Italy.
  18. Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Padova, Padua, 35139, Italy.
  19. Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, 48100, Italy.
  20. Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, 622 Fraser Hall, Lawrence, KS, USA.
  21. Department of Geology and Paleontology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.

PMID: 34814754 PMCID: PMC8611323 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2079

Abstract

Modern humans have a slow and extended period of childhood growth, but to what extent this ontogenetic pathway was present in Neanderthals is debated. Dental development, linked to the duration of somatic growth across modern primates, is the main source for information about growth and development in a variety of fossil primates, including humans. Studies of Neanderthal permanent teeth report a pace of development either similar to recent humans or relatively accelerated. Neanderthal milk teeth, which form and emerge before permanent teeth, provide an opportunity to determine which pattern was present at birth. Here we present a comparative study of the prenatal and early postnatal growth of five milk teeth from three Neanderthals (120 000-130 000 years ago) using virtual histology. Results reveal regions of their milk teeth formed quickly before birth and over a relatively short period of time after birth. Tooth emergence commenced towards the earliest end of the eruption schedules displayed by extant human children. Advanced dental development is consistent with expectations for Neanderthal infant feeding.

Keywords: dental development; evolutionary biology; fossil hominins; human evolution; virtual histology

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