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Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use
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Recon reconstructs the diets of European Miocene catarrhines by examining microscopic use-wear on their teeth, and identifies variation among these primates such that O. macedoniensis and Pliopithecus platydon probably more often used their front teeth in the ingestion of small or angular abrasives than did other primates studied.About:
This article is published in Journal of Human Evolution.The article was published on 1996-10-01. It has received 203 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ouranopithecus macedoniensis & Pliopithecus.read more
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Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors
Mark F. Teaford,Peter S. Ungar +1 more
TL;DR: 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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Relief index of second mandibular molars is a correlate of diet among prosimian primates and other euarchontan mammals.
TL;DR: Because of the accuracy and phylogenetic insensitivity of the RFI among Euarchonta, this method can be applied to fossil primates and stem-primates and used to elucidate and compare their dietary preferences, important for developing a more detailed view of primate evolution.
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Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa
TL;DR: Microwear texture analysis is a new, automated and repeatable approach that measures whole surfaces in three dimensions without observer error as mentioned in this paper, showing that ruminants have more anisotropic microwear surface textures, whereas browsers have more complex microwave surface textures.
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The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls
Gildas Merceron,Cécile Blondel,Michel Brunet,Sevket Sen,Nikos Solounias,Laurent Viriot,Emile Heintz +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used dental microwear data from artiodactyls from the Late Miocene of Afghanistan to infer the paleoenvironment of the artidactyl species.
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Error rates in buccal-dental microwear quantification using scanning electron microscopy.
Jordi Galbany,Laura Martínez,H. M. López-Amor,Vanesa Espurz,O. Hiraldo,Alejandro Romero,J. De Juan,Alejandro Pérez-Pérez +7 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that a consistent technique, such as offered by the Microware software package, be adopted by current researchers to establish a common microwear database, and the margin of intra- and interobserver error should be taken into account when defining pattern differences between populations or when documenting seasonally mitigated differences within a taxon.
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