Dental Evolution Sets a Divergence Time for Neanderthals and Modern Humans (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Dental Evolution Sets a Divergence Time for Neanderthals and Modern Humans (1 of 2)

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Hominin teeth used in this study. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 15th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Gómez-Robles at University College London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Dental evolutionary rates and its implications for the Neanderthal-modern human divergence."

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Aida Gomez-Robles, Ana Muela and Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro

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