Dental Floss for the Mind

 Content: Dental evolution and dental morphology : introduction / S.E. Bailey --
 Patterns of molar variation in great apes and their implications for hominin taxonomy / V. Pilbrow --
 Trends in postcanine occlusal morphology within the hominin clade : the case of Paranthropus / S.E. Bailey and B.A. Wood --
 Maxillary molars cusp morphology of South African australopithecines / J. Moggi-Cecchi and S. Boccone --
 Gran Dolina-TD6 and Sima de los Huesos dental samples : preliminary approach to some dental characters of interest for phylogenetic studies / M. Martinón-Torres ... [et al.] --
 Neural network analysis by using the Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) applied to human fossil dental morphology : a new methodology / F. Manni, R. Vargiu and A. Coppa --
 Micro-computed tomography of primate molars : methodological aspects of three-dimensional data collection / A.J. Olejniczak, F.E. Grine and L.B. Martin --
 HRXCT analysis of hominoid molars : a quantitative volumetric analysis and 3D reconstruction of coronal enamel and dentin / D.G. Gantt, J. Kappelman and R.A. Ketcham --
 Dental microsctructure and life history : introduction / R. Macchiarelli and S.E. Bailey --
 Inferring primate growth, development and life history from dental microstructure : the case of the extinct Malagasy lemur, Megaladapis / G.T. Schwartz, L.R. Godfrey and P. Mahoney --
 Histological study of an upper incisor and molar of a bonobo (Pan paniscus) individual / F. Ramirez Rossi and R.S. Lacruz --
 New perspectives on chimpanzee and human molar crown development / T.M. Smith ... [et al.] --
 Portable confocal scanning optical microscopy of Australopithecus africanus enamel structure / T.G. Bromage ... [et al.] --
 Imbricational enamel formation in Neandertals and recent modern humans / D. Guatelli-Steinberg ... [et al.] Dental development : introduction / B.A. Wood --
 Of mice and monkeys : quantitative genetic analyses of size variation along the dental arcade / L.J. Hlusko and M.C. Mahaney --
 Quantifying variation in human dental development sequences : an evo-devo perspective / J. Braga and Y. Heuze --
 Dental calcification stages of the permanent M1 and M2 in U.S. children of African-American and European-American ancestry born in the 1990s / J. Monge ... [et al.] --
 A computerized model for reconstruction of dental ontogeny : a new tool for studying evolutionary trends in the dentition / P. Smith ... [et al.] --
 Dentition and diet : introduction / F.E. Grine --
 An evaluation of changes in strontium/calcium ratios across the neonatal line in human deciduous teeth / L.T. Humphrey, M.C. Dean and T.E. Jeffries --
 Dental topography and human evolution with comments on the diets of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus / P.S. Ungar --
 Dental microwear and paleoanthropology : cautions and possibilities / M.F. Teaford --
 Tooth wear and diversity in early hominid molars : a case study / L. Ulhaas, O. Kullmer and F. Schrenk --
 3-D interferometric microscopy applied to the study of buccal enamel microwear / F. Estebaranz ... [et al.].
 Abstract:             The objective of the volume is to bring together, in one collection, the most innovative dental anthropological research as it pertains to the study of hominid evolution. In the past few decades both the numbers of hominin dental fossils and the sophistication of the techniques used to analyze them have increased substantially. Contributions focus on dental morphometrics, growth and development, diet and dental evolution. The contributed chapters include crown morphology, microstructure, microwear, stable isotope data, recent genetic research and new methodologies, including 3-D imaging