About the Authors

Isabelle Crevecoeur

i.crevecoeur@pacea.u-bordeaux1.fr

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 5199, de la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (UMR 5199 - PACEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Bordeaux, Talence, France

Matthew M. Skinner

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany

Shara E. Bailey

Affiliations Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany

Philipp Gunz

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany

Silvia Bortoluzzi

Affiliation Laboratori di Antropologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica “Leo Pardi”, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy

Alison S. Brooks

Affiliation Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Christian Burlet

Affiliation Geological Survey of Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Els Cornelissen

Affiliation Section of Prehistory and Archaeology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

Nora De Clerck

Affiliation Microtomography CT Research Group, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Bruno Maureille

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 5199, de la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (UMR 5199 - PACEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Bordeaux, Talence, France

Patrick Semal

Affiliation Anthropology and Prehistory, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Yves Vanbrabant

Affiliation Geological Survey of Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Bernard Wood

Affiliation Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC MMS SEB PG BW. Performed the experiments: IC MMS SEB PG. Analyzed the data: IC MMS SEB PG ASB EC PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IC MMS SEB PG SB CB ND BM PS YV. Wrote the paper: IC MMS SEB ASB EC BW.