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  3. The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2015
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9781316529843
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316529843
Subjects:
Life Sciences, Epidemiology Public Health and Medical Statistics, Medicine, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (20)
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Book description

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern which is studied by dental anthropologists. This book presents the first worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth structure in recent populations. It:describes the methods and assumptions used by dental anthropologistsdiscusses the genetic basis of nonmetric dental traitsportrays the geographic variation of tooth crown and root traitsanalyzes dental variation on a global scale paralleling major genetic and craniometric analysesThe book illustrates more than 30 tooth crown and root traits and reviews their biological and genetic underpinnings. This analysis links extinct and extant populations and so serves as a useful tool for elucidating population relationships and histories.

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‘I found this book an absolute delight … it was packed with useful and interesting material.’

D. R. Johnson Source: Dentomaxillofacial Radiology

' … a book that will interest a general biological anthropological readership as well as those involved in the study of modern human teeth.'

Source: Journal of Biosocial Science

'… the first worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth structure in recent population.'

Source: Human Evolution

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