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===Life history=== Dental development seems to have followed about the same timeframe as it does in modern humans and most other hominins, but, since ''Paranthropus'' molars are markedly larger, rate of [[tooth eruption]] would have been accelerated.<ref name=Wood2007/><ref>{{cite journal|first=M. C.|last=Dean|year=1985|title=The eruption pattern of the permanent incisors and first permanent molars in ''Australopithecus (Paranthropus) robustus''|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|volume=67|issue=3|pages=251β257|doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330670310|pmid=3933358}}</ref> Their life history may have mirrored that of gorillas as they have the same brain volume,<ref>{{cite journal|first1=J.|last1=Kelley|first2=G. T.|last2=Schwartz|year=2012|title=Life-History Inference in the Early Hominins ''Australopithecus'' and ''Paranthropus''|journal=International Journal of Primatology|volume=33|issue=6|pages=1332β1363|doi=10.1007/s10764-012-9607-2|s2cid=16288970}}</ref> which (depending on the subspecies) reach physical maturity from 12β18 years and have birthing intervals of 40β70 months.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=M. M.|last1=Robbins|first2=A. M.|last2=Robbins|year=2018|title=Variation in the social organization of gorillas: Life history and socioecological perspectives|journal=Evolutionary Anthropology|volume=27|issue=5|pages=218β233|doi=10.1002/evan.21721|pmid=30325554|s2cid=53100488|url=https://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/Wiley-Blackwell/Robbins_Variation_EvolAnthrop_2018_3007627.pdf}}</ref>
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