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Nanoindentation mapping of the mechanical properties of human molar tooth enamel.
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Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins
TLDR
Results for living primates show that this approach can distinguish among diets characterized by different fracture properties, and microwear texture analysis indicates that Australopithecus africanus microwear is more anisotropic, but also more variable in anisotropy than Paranthropus robustus.
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Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations.
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Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets.
TLDR
The utility of dental microwear texture analysis is reaffirmed as an important tool in making dietary inferences based on fossil primate samples because of significant contrasts between species with diets known to include foods with differing material properties.
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Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors.
  • M. TeafordP. Ungar
  • Environmental Science
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 5 December 2000
TLDR
The cranial and dental traits of the early australopithecines through time are traced to show that between 4.4 million and 2.3 million years ago, the dietary capabilities of the earliest hominids changed dramatically, leaving them well suited for life in a variety of habitats and able to cope with significant changes in resource availability associated with long-term and short-term climatic fluctuations.
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Diet in early Homo : A review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility
TLDR
Early Homo species more likely had adaptations for flexible, versatile subsistence strategies that would have served them well in the variable paleoenvironments of the African Plio-Pleistocene.
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Macrovertebrate Paleontology and the Pliocene Habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus
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Although the Early Pliocene Afar included a range of environments, and the local environment at Aramis and its vicinity ranged from forests to wooded grasslands, the integration of available physical and biological evidence establishes Ar.
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Comparative and functional anatomy of Proconsul phalanges from the Kaswanga Primate Site, Rusinga Island, Kenya
TLDR
This sample is many times larger than any other Miocene hominoid phalangeal sample, and preserves several examples of every hand and foot phalanx from both sexes, allowing for a much greater understanding of normal ranges of variation and for a more detailed reconstruction of positional behavior in Proconsul.
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Molar microwear and dietary reconstructions of fossil cercopithecoidea from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of South Africa.
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Quantitative differences in dental microwear between primate species with different diets and a comment on the presumed diet of Sivapithecus.
  • M. TeafordA. Walker
  • Environmental Science, Geography
    American journal of physical anthropology
  • 1 June 1984
TLDR
Qualitative differences in dental microwear between primate species that are known to have different diets are reported and it is shown that enamel microwear can be used to distinguish between those with a mainly frugivorous diet and those with an mainly folivorous one.
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