G. Richard Scott (Reno University of Nevada), Christy G. Turner II (Arizona State University), Grant C. Townsend (University of Adelaide)

The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth

Dental Morphology and Its Variation in Recent and Fossil Homo Sapiens

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Produktbeschreibung

The first edition is a seminal work on dental morphology. Now revised and updated to include developments in the field, this synthesis of the global variation in tooth structure in recent human populations is invaluable for students of dental anthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, paleoanthropology, dentistry, and genetics.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 854g
• ISBN-13: 9781316626481
• ISBN-10: 1316626482
• Artikelnr.: 49227866

Autorenporträt

G. Richard Scott is Foundation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has written two books and edited two books on dental morphology and anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
1. Dental anthropology and morphology
2. Description and classification of permanent crown and root traits
3. Biological considerations: ontogeny, asymmetry, sex dimorphism, and inter-trait association
4. Genetics of morphological trait expression
5. Geographic variation in tooth crown and root morphology
6. Establishing method and theory for using dental morphology in reconstructions of human population history
7. Dental morphology and population history
8. Fossil hominin dental morphology with a focus on Homo sapiens
Epilogue
Appendix: tables of data
References
Index.