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The landscape of tooth shape: Over 20 years of dental topography in primates

Year: 2020
Type: review
Abstract: Diet plays an incontrovertible role in primate evolution, affecting anatomy, growth and development, behavior, and social structure. It should come as no surprise that a myriad of methods for reconstructing diet have developed, mostly utilizing the element that is not only most common in the fossil record but also most pertinent to diet: teeth. Twenty years ago, the union of traditional, anatomical analyses with emerging scanning and imaging technologies led to the development of a new method for quantifying tooth shape and reconstructing the diets of extinct primates. This method became known as dental topography.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21856
Institutions: London South Bank University, Imperial College London, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Poitiers, Institute of Paleoprimatology Human Paleontology Evolution and Paleoenvironments, Laboratoire Paléontologie Évolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,397
OpenAlex ID: W3045110495
FWCI: 0.953
Cites: 113
Cited by: 55
Related to: 10