About the Authors

Luca Fiorenza

lfiorenza@senckenberg.de

Affiliations Department of Palaeoanthropology and Messel Research, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Palaeoanthropology Department, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Stefano Benazzi

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Jeremy Tausch

Affiliations Department of Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, New York, United States of America, Institute of Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ottmar Kullmer

Affiliation Department of Palaeoanthropology and Messel Research, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Timothy G. Bromage

Affiliation Departments of Biomaterials and Biomimetics and Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, New York, United States of America

Friedemann Schrenk

Affiliations Department of Palaeoanthropology and Messel Research, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Institute of Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OK. Performed the experiments: LF. Analyzed the data: LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LF SB. Wrote the paper: LF. Discussed the results and contributed to the manuscript: JT TB FS.