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Rates of Evolutionary Change in the Hominid Dentition

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Rates of evolution of hominid dentition have been calculated for fossils from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Clearly rates fluctuated during the Pleistocene.

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BILSBOROUGH, A. Rates of Evolutionary Change in the Hominid Dentition. Nature 223, 146–149 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223146a0

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