ArticleScientific reports2020
Parturitions, menopause and other physiological stressors are recorded in dental cementum microstructure.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Methodological validation and inter-site analysis in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age cremations using tooth cementum annulation counts.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Reconstructing smoking history through dental cementum analysis - a preliminary investigation on modern and archaeological teeth.PloS one · 2025Article
- Microanatomy of incremental growth lines in dental tissues in reindeer Rangifer tarandus.Journal of anatomy · 2025Article
- Article
- Using SXRF and LA-ICP-TOFMS to Explore Evidence of Treatment and Physiological Responses to Leprosy in Medieval Denmark.Biology · 2023Article
- Article
- Life history in primate teeth is revealed by changes in major and minor element concentrations measured via field-emission SEM-EDS analysis.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Comparative hard x-ray tomography for virtual histology of zebrafish larva, human tooth cementum, and porcine nerve.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2022Article
- Dental cementum virtual histology of Neanderthal teeth from Krapina (Croatia, 130-120 kyr): an informed estimate of age, sex and adult stressors.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Article
- Possibility of Human Gender Recognition Using Raman Spectra of Teeth.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The life history pattern of recent humans is uniquely derived in many of its aspects including an extended post-reproductive lifespan combined with short interbirth intervals. A number of theories have been proposed to explain the evolution of this unusual pattern. However most have been difficult to test due to the fragmentary nature of the hominin fossil record and the lack of methods capable of inferring such later life history events. In search of a method we tested the hypothesis that the physiologically impactful events of parturition and menopause are recorded in dental cementum microstructure. We performed histomorphological analyses of 47 teeth from 15 individuals with known life history events and were able to detect reproductive events and menopause in all females. Furthermore, we found that other stressful events such as systemic illnesses and incarceration are also detectable. Finally, through the development of a novel analytical method we were able to time all such events with high accuracy (R-squared = 0.92).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.