title: Wild chimpanzee dentition and its implications for assessing life history in immature hominin fossils.
abstract: Data from three African field sites on Pan troglodytes demonstrate an unambiguous pattern of a slower growth rate in wild vs. captive chimpanzee populations. A revised dental growth chronology for chimpanzees is similar to estimated timing of Homo erectus and therefore has implications for interpreting life history in hominins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. a.zihlman@ucsc.edu
authors.forename: Adrienne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zihlman
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bolter
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boesch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003817:Dentition; D005260:Female; D005580:Fossils; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010161:Paleodontology; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000033:anatomy & histology*