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Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations.
Robert S. Scott,Peter S. Ungar,Torbjorn S. Bergstrom,Christopher A. Brown,Benjamin E. Childs,Mark F. Teaford,Alan Walker +6 more
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A new methodological approach to microwear is described: dental microwear texture analysis, based on three-dimensional surface measurements taken using white-light confocal microscopy and scale-sensitive fractal analysis, which offers repeatable, quantitative characterizations of three- dimensional surfaces, free of observer measurement error.About:
This article is published in Journal of Human Evolution.The article was published on 2006-10-01. It has received 355 citations till now.read more
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Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei
TL;DR: The apparent discrepancy between microwear and functional anatomy is consistent with the idea that P. boisei presents a hominin example of Liem's Paradox, wherein a highly derived morphology need not reflect a specialized diet.
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The Design and Manufacture of Biomedical Surfaces
Jeremy J. Ramsden,D.M. Allen,David J. Stephenson,Jeffrey R. Alcock,G.N. Peggs,G. D. Fuller,Gert Goch +6 more
TL;DR: The metrology of relevant physical and chemical aspects of surfaces is considered, which includes the adsorption of biomacromolecules, which is pivotal for biocompatibility.
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Replication of micro and nano surface geometries
TL;DR: The state-of-the-art in surface texture and topography replication at micro and nano scale is described in this article, which includes replication of surfaces in polymers, metals and glass.
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Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets
TL;DR: 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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Hard-object feeding in sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and interpretation of early hominin feeding ecology.
David J. Daegling,W. Scott McGraw,Peter S. Ungar,James D. Pampush,Anna E. Vick,E. Anderson Bitty +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown that derived features of the australopith skull are sufficient but not necessary for the consumption of large, hard objects, and the adaptive significance of australofacial morphology may instead be related to the toughness, rather than the hardness, of ingested foods.
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East African mammals : an atlas of evolution in Africa
TL;DR: Two volumes on the bovids include a reappraisal of bovid taxonomy and original analyses of the form and function of body shape and size, horn shape, coat pattern, and tooth structure.
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Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins
Robert S. Scott,Peter S. Ungar,Torbjorn S. Bergstrom,Christopher A. Brown,Frederick E. Grine,Mark F. Teaford,Alan Walker +6 more
TL;DR: 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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Microwear of mammalian teeth as an indicator of diet
TL;DR: Microwear details on teeth of two sympatric species of hyrax are correlated with major dietary differences observed in the wild, and diets of extinct species may be deduced from tooth microwear.
Advances in the reconstruction of ungulate ecomorphology with application to early fossil equids. American Museum novitates ; no. 3366
TL;DR: In addition to the traditional scratch and pit numbers, the authors introduced four qualitative variables: scratch texture, cross scratches, large pits, and gouges, which provide finer subdivisions within the basic dietary categories.