A molecular difference in the jaw muscles of human and non-human primates has tantalizing echoes in the fossil record. Was this divergence a central event in the evolution of the skull of modern hominids?
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Currie, P. Muscling in on hominid evolution. Nature 428, 373–374 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/428373a
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