Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: Convergence and contrasts

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-44

  Winchester, Julia M ^a,b   Boyer, Doug M ^a,c,d,e   St Clair, Elizabeth M ^c   Gosselin Ildari, Ashley D ^a   Cooke, Siobhán B ^e,f   Ledogar, Justin A ^g  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology   (United States)

^f NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

dental functional morphology; dietary inference; Dirichlet normal energy; orientation patch count rotated; platyrrhines; relief index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET; ECOLOGY; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLATYRRHINE; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; SPECIES COMPARISON; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

DENTAL FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; DIETARY INFERENCE; DIRICHLET NORMAL ENERGY; ORIENTATION PATCH COUNT ROTATED; PLATYRRHINES; RELIEF INDEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CEBIDAE; DIET; ECOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLAR; ODONTOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 84890120718     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22398     Document Type: Article

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