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@article{item_3355343,
title = {{Insights into the palaeobiology of an early Homo infant: multidisciplinary investigation of the GAR IVE hemi-mandible, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia}},
author = {Le Cabec, Adeline and Colard, Thomas and Charabidze, Damien and Chaussain, Catherine and Di Carlo, Gabriele and Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine and Hublin, Jean-Jacques and Melis, Rita T. and Pioli, Laura and Ramirez-Rozzi, Fernando and Mussi, Margherita},
language = {eng},
issn = {2045-2322},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-021-02462-1},
year = {2021},
abstract = {{Childhood is an ontogenetic stage unique to the modern human life history pattern. It enables the {\textless}br{\textgreater}still dependent infants to achieve an extended rapid brain growth, slow somatic maturation, while {\textless}br{\textgreater}benefitting from provisioning, transitional feeding, and protection from other group members. This {\textless}br{\textgreater}tipping point in the evolution of human ontogeny likely emerged from early Homo. The GAR IVE {\textless}br{\textgreater}hemi{-}mandible (1.8 Ma, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia) represents one of the rarely preserved early Homo {\textless}br{\textgreater}infants ({\textasciitilde} 3 years at death), recovered in a richly documented Oldowan archaeological context. Yet, {\textless}br{\textgreater}based on the sole external inspection of its teeth, GAR IVE was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease{\textendash}{\textless}br{\textgreater}amelogenesis imperfecta (AI){\textendash}altering enamel. Since it may have impacted the child{\textquoteright}s survival, this {\textless}br{\textgreater}diagnosis deserves deeper examination. Here, we reassess and refute this diagnosis and all associated {\textless}br{\textgreater}interpretations, using an unprecedented multidisciplinary approach combining an in{-}depth analysis {\textless}br{\textgreater}of GAR IVE (synchrotron imaging) and associated fauna. Some of the traits previously considered {\textless}br{\textgreater}as diagnostic of AI can be better explained by normal growth or taphonomy, which calls for caution {\textless}br{\textgreater}when diagnosing pathologies on fossils. We compare GAR IVE{\textquoteright}s dental development to other fossil {\textless}br{\textgreater}hominins, and discuss the implications for the emergence of childhood in early Homo}},
journal = {{Scientific Reports}},
volume = {11},
eid = {23087},
}