Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
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University of Oregon
Caption: John Lukacs, professor of anthropology, shows a 250,000-year-old "Kabwe skull" from Africa. The sex is unknown, but this specimen has 15 teeth still intact or partially present -- 12 of them have obvious damage from dental caries.
Credit: Jim Barlow
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