Relative cheek-tooth size in Australopit
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Henry M. McHenry
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1984
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Until the discovery of __Australopithecus afarensis__, cheekβtooth megadontia was unequivocally one of the defining characteristics of the australopithecine grade in human evolution along with bipedalism and small brains. This species, however, has an average postcanine area of 757 mm^2