What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution

Bibliographic Data

ID23498756
AuthorsD Guatelli-Steinberg (0000-0002-1345-5384, The Ohio State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWhat Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139979597
OpenAlexW2499979795
ISBN9781139979597
Open LibraryOL34558338M
LanguageEN
Citations received8

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 data. Integrating dental findings with current debates and issues in palaeoanthropology, this book shows how fossil hominin teeth shed light on the origins and evolution of our dietary diversity, extended childhoods, long lifespans, and other fundamental features of human biology. It assesses methods to interpret different lines of dental evidence, providing a critical, practical approach that will appeal to students and researchers in biological anthropology and related fields such as dental science, oral biology, evolutionary biology, and palaeontology.

Archaeology · Biological anthropology · Biology · dental chemistry · dental pathology · Diet · Evolutionary biology · fossil hominins · Fossil Record · hominin teeth · Human evolution · lifespan · Paleoanthropology · tooth development · Tooth wear · Bone and Dental Protein Studies · Diet and metabolism studies · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Anatomy & histology · Biological Evolution · Dental anthropology · Methods · Odontometry · Paleodontology · Physical anthropology · Teeth · Tooth