The ability to grow replacement teeth could one day be a reality. With the discovery of adult stem cells in teeth, say scientists, there is every reason to believe tooth regeneration is possible.
Human children pair fast growth of a large brain with slow body growth. Ancient Homo fossil teeth reveal that hominin dental growth rates began to slow before there was a major increase in brain ...
Fossil teeth can help us understand how we may have evolved these unique life stages because they preserve incremental growth patterns. Like tree rings, they can be used to infer developmental ...