What teeth can tell about the lives and environments of ancient humans and Neanderthals
- Written by Tanya M. Smith, Associate Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
Fossilised tooth crowns hold lots of information about past climates and life events.Tanya M Smith, Author provided
Increasing variation in the climate has been implicated as a possible factor in the evolution of our species (Homo sapiens) 300,000 years ago, as well as the more recent demise of our enigmatic evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals.
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