Neandertal dental asymmetry and the probable mutation effect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8315993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian K Suarez (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-416 |
| Publication date | 1974-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330410307 |
| PMID | 4432926 |
| OpenAlex | W1995902344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 12 |
The purpose of this paper is to show that if Brace's hypothesis concerning the role of random mutations in structural reduction (PME) is accepted for the sake of argument, then it cannot be used to explain hominid tooth size reduction since the Mousterian. Specifically it is shown that Brace's Hypothesis implies a smaller variance in dental asymmetry for Neandertal than modern man. Variance analysis reveals that, to the contrary, Neandertal dentitions are more variable than a large sample of modern man's. Finally it is shown that the sequence of dental asymmetry per tooth class is approximately the same in Neandertal as in modern man
Argument (complex analysis) · Asymmetry · Biology · Brace · Economics · Evolutionary biology · Fluctuating asymmetry · Geometry · Mousterian · Physics · Reduction (mathematics) · Sequence (biology) · Variance (accounting) · Ecology · Genetics · Mathematics · Medicine · Morphological variations and asymmetry · Orthodontics · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2018 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |