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THE sequence of eruption of the permanent teeth has been used as a measure of the biological distance between early and recent man. Schultz1 gives the order M1 I1 I2 M2 (P P) (C M3) for fossil man, as contrasted with (I1 M1) I2 (P C P) M2 M3 for recent whites, a distinction in which Osman-Hill2 concurs. Broom and Robinson3 have further used the sequence I1 M1 I2 (C P1) M2 P2 M3 as a taxonomic criterion for Paranthropus, holding that this sequence “agrees closely with that of modern man”.
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GARN, S., KOSKI, K. Tooth Eruption Sequence in Fossil and Recent Man. Nature 180, 442–443 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180442a0
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