Patterns of tooth size variability in the dentition of primates
dc.contributor.author | Gingerich, Philip D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schoeninger, Margaret J. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-28T15:57:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-28T15:57:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1979-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Gingerich, Philip D.; Schoeninger, Margaret J. (1979)."Patterns of tooth size variability in the dentition of primates." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51(3): 457-465. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37598> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-9483 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1096-8644 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37598 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=532829&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Published data on tooth size in 48 species of non-human primates have been analyzed to determine patterns of variability in the primate dentition. Average coefficients of variation calculated for all species, with males and females combined, are greatest for teeth in the canine region. Incisors tend to be somewhat less variable, and cheek teeth are the least variable. Removing the effect of sexual dimorphism, by pooling coefficients of variation calculated for males and females separately, reduces canine variability but does not alter the basic pattern. Ontogenetic development and position in functional fields have been advanced to explain patterns of variability in the dentition, but neither of these appears to correlate well with patterns documented here. We tentatively suggest another explanation. Variability is inversely proportional to occlusal complexity of the teeth. This suggests that occlusal complexity places an important constraint on relative variability within the dentition. Even when the intensity of natural selection is equal at all tooth positions, teeth with complex occlusal patterns must still be less variable than those with simple occlusion in order to function equally well. Hence variability itself cannot be used to estimate the relative intensity of selection. Low variability of the central cheek teeth ( documentclass{article}pagestyle{empty}begin{document}$ mathop {rm M}frac{1}{1} $end{document} and documentclass{article}pagestyle{empty}begin{document}$ mathop {rm M}frac{2}{2} $end{document} ) makes them uniquely important for estimating body size in small samples, and for distinguishing closely related species in the fossil record. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | Patterns of tooth size variability in the dentition of primates | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Paleontology and Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Paleontology and Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 532829 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/37598/1/1330510318_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330510318 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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