Growth, Development, and Life History in Hominin Evolution

Abstract

This chapter talks about life history in hominin evolution, as discerned largely through cranial capacity and dental development, and postcranial skeletal growth. The discussion can largely be framed around key debates concerning Plio-Pleistocene hominin life history, growth, and development: 1) whether the timing of dental eruption, skeletal fusion, and stature growth in hominins is more ape-like, human-like, neither or both; and 2) when in the fossil record can a substantially human life-history pattern be discerned. The chapter also briefly discusses life-history inferences in Miocene hominoids as a prelude to the discussion of hominins.

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