Virtual dentitions: touching the hidden evidence

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511542442.018

18 - Virtual dentitions: touching the hidden evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2009

Roberto MacChiarelli ,

Luca Bondioli and

Arnaud Mazurier

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Joel D. Irish and

Greg C. Nelson

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Roberto MacChiarelli: Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géobiologie, Biochronologie et Paléontologie Humaine, France
Luca Bondioli: Affiliation:
Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini”, Sezione di Antropologia, Italy
Arnaud Mazurier: Affiliation:
Etudes Recherches Matériaux, Dép. Géosciences, France
Joel D. Irish: Affiliation:
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Greg C. Nelson: Affiliation:
University of Oregon

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Recent advances in dental developmental biology, quantitative genetics, and micro-anatomy (e.g. Dean, 2000, 2006; Hlusko, 2004; Hlusko et al., 2004; Jernvall, 2000; Jernvall and Jung, 2000; Mitsiadis and Smith, 2006; Olejniczak et al., 2004; Pereira et al., 2006; Smith T. M., 2006; Smith T. M. et al., 2006a; Thesleff et al., 2001) have made clear that a critical amount of structural data is preserved in primate dental tissues. Such data can be used to reconstruct/assess evolutionary pathways and phylogenetic relationships, adaptive strategies, growth rates and developmental timing, and age- and sex-related variation patterns in fossil taxa; they may even be used to tentatively outline aspects of their life-history, including fluctuating health conditions and seasonally related individual–environment dynamic relationships recorded during growth (Beynon et al., 1998; Chaimanee et al., 2006; Dean and Leakey, 2004; Dean et al., 2001; FitzGerald et al., 2006; Guatelli-Steinberg et al., 2005; Kelley and Smith, 2003; Lacruz et al., 2006; Macchiarelli et al., 2006; Marivaux et al., 2006a; Ramirez-Rozzi and Bermúdez de Castro, 2004; Schwartz et al., 2003; Smith P. et al., 2006; Smith T. M. et al., 2005a, 2006b; Sponheimer et al., 2006). Nonetheless, a significant portion of this valuable paleobiological archive is hidden deep within the crown and root(s). Since it is not possible or, in the case of scarce fossils, desirable to section every specimen, non-invasive analytical approaches can be used in addition to histomorphometry.

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Information: Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology , pp. 426 - 448

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