The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth
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The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth

Dental Morphology and its Variation in Recent Human Populations

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth

Dental Morphology and its Variation in Recent Human Populations

About this book

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 anthropologists • discusses the genetic basis of nonmetric dental traits • portrays the geographic variation of tooth crown and root traits • analyzes dental variation on a global scale paralleling major genetic and craniometric analyses The 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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Yes, you can access The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth by G. Richard Scott,Christy G. Turner 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. Combridge Studies in Biological Anthropology The anthropology of modern human teeth
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue
  9. 1 Dental anthropology and morphology
  10. 2 Description and classification of permanent crown and root traits
  11. 3 Biological considerations: ontogeny, asymmetry, sex dimorphism, and intertrait association
  12. 4 Genetics of morphological trait expression
  13. 5 Geographic variation in tooth crown and root morphology
  14. 6 Establishing method and theory for using tooth morphology in reconstructions of late Pleistocene and Holocene population history
  15. 7 Tooth morphology and population history
  16. Epilogue
  17. Appendix A: Information base for global descriptions and analysis
  18. Appendix B: Sources of comparative data used for compling tables in chapter 5
  19. References
  20. Index