Marc Verhaegen

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Do coastal macaques have (slightly) thicker tooth enamel than inland macaques or than non-tool-using macaques?

Are there comparative studies of enamel thickness among Macaca spp & related monkeys? Macaques are omnivores who seem to have dispersed out of Africa along the Indian Ocean coastal forests...

02 November 2015 5,898 8 View

Did all or most of the Homo or Australopithecus naledi fossils erode from the breccia in the roof of the naledi cave?

I just read that the first naledi fossil was a mandible which had collapsed from the breccia above. The morphological comparative evidence is clear IMO: naledi (humanlike plantigrade feet, more...

02 November 2015 7,216 36 View

Do chimps have philtra?

Humans have a curious structure in the middle of the upper lip, a vertical groove which is called philtrum, or infranasal depression. Most mammals have there a deep narrow groove, unlike the human...

27 July 2014 3,519 3 View