No chin left behind: the morphological integration and variation of the modern human mentum osseum
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Abstract
The chin, or mentum osseum, is regarded as one of the most unique traits that differentiate modern humans from our earlier hominin ancestors and has received intense scrutiny by scholars for well over a century. Several hypotheses are currently being investigated by researchers in attempts to elucidate the nature of the origin and function of the chin, but none of these have been satisfactorily upheld. Additionally, there are debates about what defines the chin and whether it is variable amongst extant modern humans. In an attempt to study this problem in a novel way, the current study examines ...
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