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The great apes are tailless primates, with the smallest living species being the bonobo at {{Convert|30 to 40|kg|lb}} in weight, and the largest being the eastern gorillas, with males weighing {{Convert|140 to 180|kg|lb}}. In all great apes, the males are, on average, larger and stronger than the females, although the degree of [[sexual dimorphism]] varies greatly among species. Hominid teeth are similar to those of the [[Old World monkey]]s and gibbons, although they are especially large in gorillas. The [[dentition|dental formula]] is {{DentalFormula|upper=2.1.2.3|lower=2.1.2.3}}. Human teeth and jaws are markedly smaller forrelative theirto body size thancompared to those of other apes,. whichThis may be an adaptation to not only havingto supplanted withthe extensive tool use of tools, which has supplanted the role of jaws in hunting and fighting, but also to eating cooked food since the end of the [[Pleistocene]].<ref name=Brace&Mahler>{{Cite journal|date=1971|last1=Brace |first1=C. Loring |author-link=C. Loring Brace |last2=Mahler |first2=Paul Emil |title=Post-Pleistocene changes in the human dentition|journal=[[American Journal of Physical Anthropology]]|volume=34|issue=2 |pages=191–203|doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330340205 |pmid=5572603 |hdl=2027.42/37509 |url = https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/37509/1/1330340205_ftp.pdf|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name=Wrangham2007>{{cite book |year = 2007 |first = Richard |last = Wrangham | chapter=Chapter 12: The Cooking Enigma | editor=Charles Pasternak | title=What Makes Us Human? | location=Oxford | publisher=Oneworld Press |isbn=978-1-85168-519-6}}</ref>