For sure. As with humans, you can tell an ape’s age by looking at its teeth, says Erin Stromberg, primate keeper at the Smithsonian National Zoo. In fact, most mammals have two sets of teeth in ...

But after the first several years of life, the teeth started growing in a more ape-like way. To determine when the pattern of slow development first emerged in our genus, the research team ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps ... sheds light on prehistoric diets using the nitrogen ratios in fossilized teeth. “This method opens up exciting possibilities for ...

Their results showed that the skull and jaw fragments actually came from two different species, a human and an ape, probably an orangutan. Scratches on the surfaces of the teeth, visible under the ...

The two small teeth described in the new report might have ... how much we don’t know about the evolution of the great ape and human family, and of other primates, during the Miocene in Europe ...

The HC-LCA would have had an ape-sized brain and body, with relatively long arms and fingers and a grasping foot that allowed it to forage in the trees. The canine teeth were probably large and ...