Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg

What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the insights that fossil hominin teeth provide about human evolution, linking findings with current debates in palaeoanthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9781107082106
• ISBN-10: 1107082102
• Artikelnr.: 45154934

Autorenporträt

Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg is Professor of Anthropology and Courtesy Professor of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Ohio State University. She has conducted extensive research on fossil hominin teeth across Africa, Europe and Asia, and has published widely in the fields of dental palaeoanthropology and dental primatology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Teeth and Australopiths: 1. March of the bipeds: the early years
2. Dentally derived dietary inferences: the australopiths
3. Curious canines
4. Incisive insights into childhood
Part II. Teeth and the Genus Homo: 5. March of the bipeds: the later years
6. Dentally derived dietary inferences: the genus Homo and its diminishing dentition
7. Long in the tooth: life history changes in Homo
8. Knowing Neanderthals through their teeth
9. Insights into the origins of modern humans and their dental diseases
10. Every tooth a diamond.