Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology: Genetics, Evolution, Variation

ISBN-13: 9781108826525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 281 str.

G. Richard Scott; Joel D. Irish

Opis

This follow-up to The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth puts methods to use in interpreting human origins and affinities.

Recenzje

'All in all, this book provides useful contributions to the anthropological perspective on variation in tooth crown morphology, which is in keeping with the editors' aim to provide a Festschrift to Christy G. Turner, II.' Frederick E. Grine, The Quarterly Review of Biology

Spis treści

List of contributors; 1. Introduction G. Richard Scott and Joel D. Irish; 2. Bite marks in tule quids: the life and times of a dental anthropologist Christy G. Turner, II; 3. Twin and family studies of human dental crown morphology: genetic, epigenetic and environmental determinants of the modern human dentition Toby Hughes and Grant Townsend; 4. Teeth, morphogenesis, and levels of variation in the human Carabelli trait Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, John P. Hunter, Ryan M. Durner, Stephanie Moormann, Theresia C. Weston and Tracy K. Betsinger; 5. The expression of human sex chromosome genes in oral and craniofacial growth Lassi Alvesalo; 6. Significant among-population associations found between dental characters and environmental factors Yuji Mizoguchi; 7. Using geometric morphometrics to study the mechanisms that pattern primate dental variation Oliver T. Rizk, Theresa M. Grieco, Michael W. Holmes and Leslea J. Hlusko; 8. Evolution of hominin postcanine macromorphology: a comparative meta-analysis Kes Schroer and Bernard Wood; 9. Dental morphology of European Middle Pleistocene populations María Martinón-Torres, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Laura Martín-Francés, Ana Gracia-Téllez, Ignacio Martínez and Juan Luis Arsuaga; 10. What does it mean to be dentally 'modern'? Shara E. Bailey and Jean-Jacques Hublin; 11. From outer to inner structural morphology in dental anthropology: integration of the third dimension in the visualization and quantitative analysis of fossil remains Roberto Macchiarelli, Priscilla Bayle, Luca Bondioli, Arnaud Mazurier and Clément Zanolli; 12. Afridonty: the 'Sub-Saharan African Dental Complex' revisited Joel D. Irish; 13. Basque dental morphology and the 'Eurodont' dental pattern G. Richard Scott, Alberto Anta, Conchita de la Rúa and Roman Schomberg; 14. A first look at the dental morphometrics of early Palauans Greg C. Nelson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick; 15. Grades, gradients, and geography: a dental morphometric approach to the population history of South Asia Brian E. Hemphill; 16. Do all Asians look alike? A dental nonmetric analysis of population diversity at the dawn of the Chinese empire (770 BC–AD 420) Christine Lee and Linhu Zhang; 17. Sinodonty and beyond: hemispheric, regional, and intracemetery approaches to studying dental morphological variation in the New World Christopher M. Stojanowski, Kent M. Johnson and William N. Duncan; 18. Crown morphology of Malay deciduous teeth: trait frequencies and biological affinities John R. Lukacs and Sri Kuswandari; 19. Geographic structure of dental variation in the major human populations of the world Tsunehiko Hanihara; 20. New approaches to the use of dental morphology in forensic contexts Heather J. H. Edgar and Stephen D. Ousley; 21. Wears the problem? Examining the effect of dental wear on studies of crown morphology Scott E. Burnett, Joel D. Irish and Michael R. Fong; Index.