Tooth form and function: Insights into adaptation through the analysis of dental microwear

Frontiers of Oral Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2009, Pages 38-43

  Ungar, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MASTICATION; MOLAR TOOTH; ODONTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOTH DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MASTICATION; MOLAR; ODONTOMETRY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOTH WEAR;

EID: 77649208008     PISSN: 14202433     EISSN: 16623770     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000242388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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