%0 Journal Article %J Semin Cell Dev Biol %D 2010 %T The evolution of hominin ontogenies. %A Zollikofer, Christoph P E %A Ponce de León, Marcia S %K Animals %K Anthropology, Physical %K Biological Evolution %K Brain %K Fossils %K Hominidae %K Humans %K Models, Theoretical %K Paleontology %K Phylogeny %K Skull %K Tooth %X

Since the beginnings of paleoanthropology, immature fossil hominin specimens have marked important but highly contested cornerstones of research. Long deemed as not representative of a fossil species' morphology, immature hominins are now in the center of scientific attention, and an increasing interest in evolutionary developmental questions has made developmental paleoanthropology a vibrant field of research. Here we report on recent advances in this field, which result from a combination of new methods to reconstruct fossil ontogenies with insights from evo-devo research on extant species.

%B Semin Cell Dev Biol %V 21 %P 441-52 %8 2010 Jun %G eng %N 4 %1

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19900572?dopt=Abstract

%R 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.10.012