Teasing apart the contributions of hard dietary items on 3D dental microtextures in primates

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-98

  Calandra, Ivan ^a,b   Schulz, Ellen ^a   Pinnow, Mona ^a   Krohn, Susanne ^a   Kaiser, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Dental areal surface texture analysis; Diet; Function; ISO FDIS 25178 2; Primates; Scale sensitive fractal analysis

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIET; FOSSIL RECORD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PRIMATE; TOOTH;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA SENICULUS; ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA; HEXAPODA; LILIOPSIDA; LOPHOCEBUS; LOPHOCEBUS ALBIGENA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII; PRIMATES; THEROPITHECUS; THEROPITHECUS GELADA; XANTHORRHOEA;

EID: 84863526023     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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