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What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution
Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
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Description for What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution
paperback. Explores the insights that fossil hominin teeth provide about human evolution, linking findings with current debates in palaeoanthropology. Num Pages: 275 pages, 41 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; PSA; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 465 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pathology. They yield insights into human evolution that are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve through other sources of fossil or archaeological data. Integrating dental findings with current debates and issues in palaeoanthropology, this book shows how fossil hominin teeth shed light on the origins and evolution of our dietary diversity, extended childhoods, long lifespans, and other fundamental features of human biology. It assesses methods to interpret different lines of dental evidence, providing a critical, practical approach that ... Read more
Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pathology. They yield insights into human evolution that are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve through other sources of fossil or archaeological data. Integrating dental findings with current debates and issues in palaeoanthropology, this book shows how fossil hominin teeth shed light on the origins and evolution of our dietary diversity, extended childhoods, long lifespans, and other fundamental features of human biology. It assesses methods to interpret different lines of dental evidence, providing a critical, practical approach that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
483g
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107442603
SKU
V9781107442603
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About Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
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.
Reviews for What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution
'This is an extensively researched and well-written - not to mention much-needed - book on the unsung heroes of human paleontology: teeth. … The author obviously has done her homework and the references in the book are as up to date as they can be in a constantly changing field. I even found some references that I had not yet ... Read more