Publication PALEVOPRIM
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.
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Michael A. Berthaume, Vincent Lazzari & F. Guy – The landscape of tooth shape: Over 20 years of dental topography in primates – Evolutionary Anthropology. 2020;1–18. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21856