Leslea Hlusko

Leslea Hlusko is a paleoanthropologist and researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) known for her work on hominin dental morphology. Hlusko's studies involve analyzing fossil teeth to distinguish between different species of early humans and their relatives. She emphasizes the challenges of interpreting isolated dental remains and has expressed concerns about the classification of fossil teeth as belonging to a new species without robust evidence, highlighting the complexities of evolutionary transitions in hominins.