Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Through a recent state-funded survey, the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry found data that shows significantly ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

[Related: The ‘granddaddy’ of all early hominins walked on Earth a lot longer than we thought.] Fossil teeth can help us ...