Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution
Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5845-5
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The objective of the volume is to bring together, in one collection, the most innovative dental anthropological research as it pertains to the study of hominid evolution. In the past few decades both the numbers of hominin dental fossils and the sophistication of the techniques used to analyze them have increased substantially. Contributions focus on dental morphometrics, growth and development, diet and dental evolution. The contributed chapters include crown morphology, microstructure, microwear, stable isotope data, recent genetic research and new methodologies, including 3-D imaging, confo.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, 3D, Augmented Reality, Biological anthropology, Dental anthropology, Hominid evolution, Paleoanthropology, Primate evolution, computed tomography (CT), modeling
