What teeth reveal about human evolution
Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pathology. They yield insights into human evolution that are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve through other sources of fossil or archaeological dat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2016
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- March of the bipeds : the early years
- Dentally-derived dietary inferences : the australopiths
- Curious canines
- Incisive insights into childhood
- March of the bipeds : the later years
- Dentally-derived dietary inferences : the genus Homo and its diminishing dentition
- Long in the tooth : life history changes in Homo
- Knowing Neanderthals through their teeth
- Insights into the origins of modern humans and their dental diseases
- Every tooth a diamond