Despite good oral hygiene, some children have weak teeth that are more prone to decay.
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The marketing of breakfast cereals may be confusing consumers with a mix of true and inflated claims.
Puppies and kittens are born without teeth, but by around two months of age they have a full set of baby teeth.
If an undocumented migrant is a minor or an adult can have far-reaching implications. A forensic anthropologist explains why relying solely on dental X-rays to determine age doesn’t work.
Why was one gene mutation that affects hair, teeth, sweat glands and breasts ubiquitous among ice age Arctic people? New research points to the advantage it provided for ancestors of Native Americans.
Even those who regularly clean their teeth typically don’t brush for the recommended two minutes.
Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different diet but their teeth suffered in similar ways to ours.
This new research offers compelling proof that the naysayers were right. “Mrs” Ples was actually a “Mr”.
New discoveries are changing archaeologists’ ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens’ African exodus date back by 50,000 years.
Can you blame bad teeth on your genes? Here’s why the answer is not as simple as you might think.
Ancient whales were neither gentle, nor giants: they were smaller than those of today and judging from their teeth, a lot meaner.
Diet and disease leave characteristic marks on our teeth which can reman for millions of years.
The evidence of a much earlier presence of humans in Indonesia was found more than 100 years ago. But only now has the age of the fossil teeth been accurately dated.
Homo naledi seems to have enjoyed small, hard foods like nuts.
Nicholas, aged 6, was watching TV one day when his tooth fell out. He noticed that the bottom edge of the tooth was very spiky. Now he wants to know why.
The theory that humankind originated in Europe is an old one. It was abandoned in 1924 when the first Australopithecus was discovered in South Africa.
Anthropologists gather clues about how our ancient ancestors lived from their teeth. What will future anthropologists make of us based on the fossilized pearly whites we’ll leave behind?
CT scanning allows scientists to observe and “dissect” fossils digitally using computer software - and to uncover secrets that are hundreds of millions of years old.
Much like the hair you carefully rearrange before a selfie, your cheek muscles and the accompanying smile date back about 250 million years.
The first teeth may have evolved from combination of scales and tastebuds.
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Senior Lecturer and General Dentist, School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral researcher, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Florida
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Paediatric dentist, Senior Lecturer and Clinician-Scientist Fellow, MCRI and University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph
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Professor, Chair of Population Oral Health + Head of School, Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Paediatric Dentistry, University of Dundee
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
