Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology
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Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology

Genetics, Evolution, Variation

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eBook - PDF

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology

Genetics, Evolution, Variation

About this book

Researchers have long had an interest in dental morphology as a genetic proxy to reconstruct population history. Much interest was fostered by the use of standard plaques and associated descriptions that comprise the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System, developed by Christy G. Turner, II and students. This system has served as the foundation for hundreds of anthropological studies for over 30 years. In recognition of that success, this volume brings together some of the world's leading dental morphologists to expand upon the concepts and methods presented in the popular The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth (Cambridge, 1997), leading the reader from method to applied research. After a preparatory section on the current knowledge of heritability and gene expression, a series of case studies demonstrate the utility of dental morphological study in both fossil and more recent populations (and individuals), from local to global scales.

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Yes, you can access Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology by G. Richard Scott,Joel D. Irish in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Physical Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Bite marks in tule quids: the life and times of a dental anthropologist
  11. 3 Twin and family studies of human dental crown morphology: genetic, epigenetic, and environmental determinants of the modern human dentition
  12. 4 Teeth, morphogenesis, and levels of variation in the human Carabelli trait
  13. 5 The expression of human sex chromosome genes in oral and craniofacial growth
  14. 6 Significant among-population associations found between dental characters and environmental factors
  15. 7 Using geometric morphometrics to study the mechanisms that pattern primate dental variation
  16. 8 Evolution of hominin postcanine macromorphology: a comparative meta-analysis
  17. 9 Dental morphology of European Middle Pleistocene populations
  18. 10 What does it mean to be dentally “modern”?
  19. 11 From outer to inner structural morphology in dental anthropology: integration of the third dimension in the visualization and quantitative analysis of fossil remains
  20. 12 Afridonty: the “Sub-Saharan African Dental Complex” revisited
  21. 13 Basque dental morphology and the “Eurodont” dental pattern
  22. 14 A first look at the dental morphometrics of early Palauans
  23. 15 Grades, gradients, and geography: a dental morphometric approach to the population history of South Asia
  24. 16 Do all Asians look alike? A dental nonmetric analysis of population diversity at the dawn of the Chinese empire (770 BC–AD 420)
  25. 17 Sinodonty and beyond: hemispheric, regional, and intracemetery approaches to studying dental morphological variation in the New World
  26. 18 Crown morphology of Malay deciduous teeth: trait frequencies and biological affinities
  27. 19 Geographic structure of dental variation in the major human populations of the world
  28. 20 New approaches to the use of dental morphology in forensic contexts
  29. 21 Wear’s the problem? Examining the effect of dental wear on studies of crown morphology
  30. Index