Debbie Guatelli-SteinbergCambridge University Press, 9/22/2016EAN 9781107442603, ISBN10: 1107442605Paperback, 294 pages, 23.1 x 15.4 x 1.5 cmLanguage: EnglishOver 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 will appeal to students and researchers in biological anthropology and related fields such as dental science, oral biology, evolutionary biology, and palaeontology.IntroductionPart I. Teeth and Australopiths1. March of the bipedsthe early years2. Dentally derived dietary inferencesthe australopiths3. Curious canines4. Incisive insights into childhoodPart II. Teeth and the Genus Homo5. March of the bipedsthe later years6. Dentally derived dietary inferencesthe genus Homo and its diminishing dentition7. Long in the toothlife history changes in Homo8. Knowing Neanderthals through their teeth9. Insights into the origins of modern humans and their dental diseases10. Every tooth a diamond.
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