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. 1999 Jun 22;96(13):7117-9.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.13.7117.

Hominids and hybrids: the place of Neanderthals in human evolution

I Tattersall  1 , J H Schwartz
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Hominids and hybrids: the place of Neanderthals in human evolution

I Tattersall et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Mandible of recent 2–3 year old Homo sapiens (American Museum of Natural History, uncatalogued) illustrating the essential features of the symphyseal region. (Upper) Anterior view showing the central keel, which broadens at the mental tuberosity, fans out inferiorly, and terminates bilaterally in blunt “corners.” (Lower) Inferior view showing the marked thickness of the mandible in the symphyseal region compared to the corpus behind it and the contribution of the marginal attributes of the mental tuberosity to mandibular shape. Not to scale.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Mandible of 3–4 year old Neanderthal from Roc de Marsal, France (Museé National de Prehistoire, Les Eyzies). (Upper) Oblique view of essentially featureless front of mandible, which is vertical yet also broad and somewhat arcuate from side to side. (Lower) Inferior view illustrating how uniformly thinner the symphyseal region is buccolingually compared to the bone farther back along the corpus. Not to scale.
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