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Journal Article
Disentangling isolated dental remains of Asian Pleistocene hominins and pongines
2018
Overview
Scholars have debated the taxonomic identity of isolated primate teeth from the Asian Pleistocene for over a century, which is complicated by morphological and metric convergence between orangutan (Pongo) and hominin (Homo) molariform teeth. Like Homo erectus, Pongo once showed considerable dental variation and a wide distribution throughout mainland and insular Asia. In order to clarify the utility of isolated dental remains to document the presence of hominins during Asian prehistory, we examined enamel thickness, enamel-dentine junction shape, and crown development in 33 molars from G. H. R. von Koenigswald's Chinese Apothecary collection (11 Sinanthropus officinalis [= Homo erectus], 21 \"Hemanthropus peii,\" and 1 \"Hemanthropus peii\" or Pongo) and 7 molars from Sangiran dome (either Homo erectus or Pongo). All fossil teeth were imaged with non-destructive conventional and/or synchrotron micro-computed tomography. These were compared to H. erectus teeth from Zhoukoudian, Sangiran and Trinil, and a large comparative sample of fossil Pongo, recent Pongo, and recent human teeth. We find that Homo and Pongo molars overlap substantially in relative enamel thickness; molar enamel-dentine junction shape is more distinctive, with Pongo showing relatively shorter dentine horns and wider crowns than Homo. Long-period line periodicity values are significantly greater in Pongo than in H. erectus, leading to longer crown formation times in the former. Most of the sample originally assigned to S. officinalis and H. erectus shows greater affinity to Pongo than to the hominin comparative sample. Moreover, enamel thickness, enamel-dentine junction shape, and a long-period line periodicity value in the \"Hemanthropus peii\" sample are indistinguishable from fossil Pongo. These results underscore the need for additional recovery and study of associated dentitions prior to erecting new taxa from isolated teeth.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Asia
/ Dental Enamel - anatomy & histology
/ Dentin - anatomy & histology
/ Enamel
/ Fossils
/ Fossils - anatomy & histology
/ Hominidae - anatomy & histology
/ Hominids
/ Horns
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Molars
/ New taxa
/ Pongo
/ Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy
/ Teeth
