Deciduous teeth provide valuable information for paleoanthropological studies Because of their importance to the survival of young children, their variation in size and shape may be especially informative for human evolution. However, how can sample size bias our understanding of deciduous teeth in human evolution?To address this question, we compared the large Homo sapiens modern sample from the Ratón Pérez collection to a wide range of hominin taxa from the published scientific literature Addi...

The dental tissue proportions of human permanent canines are one of only a few sexually dimorphic features that are present in childhood, and therefore offer the opportunity to estimate the sex of immature individuals. This work aims to evaluate for the first time the degree of sexual dimorphism ‍in the three-dimensional (3D) measurements of deciduous canine dental tissues, to assess their potential in sexual assessment.The results obtained in this study, which employed techniques of virtual ant...

Ante la necesidad de conocer mejor la dentición temporal y dado que la mayoría de las veces estas piezas dentales se acaban desechando, el Grupo de Antropología Dental (GAD) y la Unidad de Cultura Científica e Innovación (UCC+i) del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) en Burgos, organizan la primera campaña de recogida de dientes en 2014. Con esta idea en mente, nace la colección del Ratón Pérez