Homo sapiens to the East of Eden
María Martinón-Torres is a Leakey Foundation grantee from the University College London. She and her team were recently published in the journal Nature for their work in Southern China. She has been kind enough to provide us with her summary and thoughts on the significance of this find.
María Martinón-Torres studying the Daoxian teeth at the IVPP in Beijing
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Tooth eruption and life history in living chimpanzees
Tanya Smith (R) and co-PI Zarin Machanda (L)
Tanya Smith, Associate Professor at Harvard was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the spring of 2012 for her project entitled “Tooth eruption and life history in living chimpanzees.”
Tanya Smith and her team study dental development patterns in chimpanzees in order to better understand the evolution of human development. Previous
Micro-CT study of the Pleistocene human fossil teeth from Atapuerca
María Martinon-Torres at the Atapuerca sites. Photo credit: A. Canet.
María Martinon-Torres was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the fall of 2012 for her project entitled “Micro-CT study of the Pleistocene human fossil teeth from Atapuerca.”
By allowing researchers to reconstruct the internal structures of fossil dental samples, MicroCT provides a new dataset of variables to characterize and