If we can understand these relationships, we can use fossil teeth to reconstruct the diets of our early hominin ancestors and other extinct primates. As any five-year-old child familiar with ...

Primate dentitions vary widely both between genera and between species within a genus. This book is a comparative dental anatomy of the teeth of living non-human primates that brings together ...

A team of researchers from the University of Tübingen made the distinction after uncovering two fossilized teeth and a kneecap belonging to a previously unknown primate at a site called ...