DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1981.0013. Diet and teeth: Dietary hypotheses and human evolution

Diet and teeth: Dietary hypotheses and human evolution

10.1098/rstb.1981.0013

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences (175)

Abstract

Hypotheses concerning the diet of early hominids have played an important role in discussions on human evolution. Three investigations have helped define the extent to which dietary hypotheses may be taken and still be testable. Comparative anatomy is a fairly coarse approach, which despite convergences allows only the most specialized diets to be ruled out. A biomechanical analysis makes it clear that the changes in jaw and tooth form are subtle and outside the resolution given by present understanding of cranial function. Analysis of the microscopic tooth wear of extant species has been carried out. Major dietary types can be distinguished by their microwear. The microwear on fossil hominids appears to rule out certain diets that have been proposed for them.

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Diet and teeth: Dietary hypotheses and human evolution. (1981). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, 292(1057), 57â64.

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Created	18 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 18, 2006, 5:21 p.m.)
Deposited	4 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 20, 2021, 11:54 p.m.)
Indexed	1 month, 3 weeks ago (July 11, 2025, 9:05 p.m.)
Issued	44 years, 3 months ago (May 8, 1981)
Published	44 years, 3 months ago (May 8, 1981)
Published Online	28 years, 8 months ago (Jan. 1, 1997)
Published Print	44 years, 3 months ago (May 8, 1981)

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