Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology (eBook, ePUB)

Genetics, Evolution, Variation
Redaktion: Scott, G. Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139610209
• Artikelnr.: 52930354

Inhaltsangabe

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.