Hamadryas Baboon (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Hamadryas Baboon

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A threat display by a Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. A detailed study of the inherited shapes and sizes of baboon teeth led to the discovery of a dental trait that can be used to track the evolution of primates over the last 20 million years.

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Leslea Hlusko, UC Berkeley (2014)

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