Technical note: Modeling primate occlusal topography using geographic information systems technology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 137-142

  Zuccotti, L Flynn ^a   Williamson, Malcolm D ^a   Limp, W Fredrick ^a   Ungar, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; GRASS; Primate dental morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; MOLAR TOOTH; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DENTAL OCCLUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PRIMATES; SOFTWARE; TOOTH;

EID: 0031750712     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199809)107:1<137::AID-AJPA11>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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