The Evolutionary Paradox of Tooth Wear: Simply Destruction or Inevitable Adaptation?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Benazzi, Stefano ^a   Nguyen, Huynh Nhu ^a   Schulz, Dieter ^b   Grosse, Ian R ^c   Gruppioni, Giorgio ^d   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^a   Kullmer, Ottmar ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Dental Workshop Bensheim   (Germany)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHEEK; CORROSION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALOCCLUSION; MASTICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PREMOLAR TOOTH; STRESS; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOOTH DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL OCCLUSION; DENTAL STRESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOOTH DISEASES; TOOTH WEAR;

EID: 84876584680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062263     Document Type: Article

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