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 Additionally we also test the hypothesis that some deciduous molars are more taxonomically informative than others.