Tooth Form and Function in Biological Anthropology

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 516-529

  Ungar, Peter S ^a   Lucas, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet, key to understanding animal's place in nature; Diets of extinct animals and past peoples; Food choices that animals make constrained by defenses of those organisms; Functional aspects of tooth shape focusing on molar teeth and role in fracturing and fragmenting food during mastication; Non genetic indicators of diet; Quantifying tooth shape; Tooth form and function in biological anthropology; Tooth's eye view, teeth meeting challenges of defended plant (or animal) tissues

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855164336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320039.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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