ArticlePalaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology2021
Grit your teeth and chew your food: Implications of food material properties and abrasives for rates of dental microwear formation in laboratory
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- Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) From the Selenka Collection.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Article
- Tracking Molar Wear in Captive Baboons: Sex and Age Effects Using a Modified Scott Scoring System.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Changing perspectives on early hominin diets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- On the use of dental microwear texture analysis to determine etiology and assess wear of dental tissues for clinical evaluation.Biosurface and biotribologyArticle
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Dental microwear analysis has been employed in studies of a wide range of modern and fossil animals, yielding insights into the biology/ecology of those taxa. Some researchers have suggested that dental microwear patterns ultimately relate back to the material properties of the foods being consumed, whereas others have suggested that, because exogenous grit is harder than organic materials in food, grit should have an overwhelming impact on dental microwear patterns. To shed light on this issue, laboratory-based feeding experiments were conducted on tufted capuchin monkeys [
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