Between the Incisive Bone and Premaxilla: From African Apes to Homo sapiens
Résumé
Today, most palaeoanthropologists regard the absence of the incisive suture (sutura incisiva) from the anterior face of the maxilla at birth as a specific diagnostic feature of Homo. However, despite more than two centuries of attention variation in the timing of incisive suture closure in different taxa of African Apes, as well in members of human lineage, remains poorly known.