Researchers have developed formulas that can calculate the body size of a primate based on the root size of its teeth. The formulas could allow researchers to make use of partial and incomplete ...

Researchers determine that a primate’s tooth root, and not just its crown, can yield reliable information about body size, but the relationship between root surface area and diet isn’t as clear.

Tooth decay is a common and unfortunate problem for many of us, but two new studies show it is also an issue for other primates, as well as our fossil relatives and ancestors. Tooth decay is a common ...

The National Science Foundation awarded $630,444 to Kathleen Paul, an assistant professor of anthropology at the U of A, to provide a comprehensive outline of dental genetic architecture for two ...

Variability in resource availability is hypothesized to be a significant driver of primate adaptation and evolution, but most paleoclimate proxies cannot recover environmental seasonality on the scale ...

Soft fruits may have been the main dish on some ancient primate menus. An analysis of hundreds of fossilized primate teeth from the Fayum Depression, a desert basin in Egypt, shows just a handful were ...

The need for a more complete understanding of primate genetic diversity is urgent, especially given the threats posed by factors such as climate change, habitat loss, and illegal trading and hunting.

Even without fizzy drinks and sweets, an extinct primate had the same dental problems as modern humans, according to fossils — providing the earliest known evidence of mammals with cavities 1.

We are likely to develop dental cavities over time because sugars in our carbohydrate-rich diet support oral bacteria that release demineralising acids. Now there is evidence that the problem goes ...

Bite marks in tule quids : the life and times of a dental anthropologist / Christy G. Turner II -- Twin and family studies of human dental crown morphology : genetic, epigenetic, and environmental ...