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Nature 428, 904-905 (29 April 2004) | doi:10.1038/428904b
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Palaeoanthropology: Neanderthal teeth lined up
Jay Kelley1
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A huge amount of biological information is preserved in the growth records of teeth. Tapping into those records provides a tantalizing look at how quickly Neanderthals grew up and reached maturity.
It is nearly 150 years since the existence of Neanderthals was first recognized, but debate about their relationship to modern humans remains as contentious as ever. Were they supplanted by modern humans or subsumed through interbreeding1, 2, 3, 4?
- Jay Kelley is at the College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
e-mail: Email: jkelley@uic.edu
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