• DOI:10.1007/s11692-017-9408-9
Corpus ID: 38431987

The Fetal Origin of the Human Chin

@article{Coquerelle2017TheFO,
  title={The Fetal Origin of the Human Chin},
  author={Michael Coquerelle and J. C. Prados-Frutos and R. Rojo and A. Drake and J. Murillo-Gonz{\'a}lez and P. Mitteroecker},
  journal={Evolutionary Biology},
  year={2017},
  volume={44},
  pages={295-311}
}

Michael Coquerelle, J. C. Prados-Frutos, +3 authors P. Mitteroecker

Published 2017

Biology

Evolutionary Biology

The chin prominence is a hallmark of the modern human face and bears on its labial surface an inverted-T bony relief. Evolutionarily, whether the human chin is an adaptation for mastication or speech is debated but there is little compelling data supporting either claim. Furthermore, some suggest that the inverted-T relief is more important for phylogenetic inference than the chin prominence. However, there is no evidence for the developmental independence of the inverted-T relief and chin… CONTINUE READING

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