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  title info:
    title: Tooth development in human evolution and bioarchaeology
  name:
    name part: Hillson, Simon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it? Addressing these and other key questions in palaeoanthropology and bioarchaeology, Simon Hillson examines the unique role of teeth in preserving detailed microscopic records of development throughout childhood and into adulthood. The text critically reviews theory, assumptions, methods and literature, providing the dental histology background to anthropological studies of both growth rate and growth disruption. Chapters also examine existing studies of growth rate in the context of human evolution and primate development more generally, together with implications for life history. The final chapters consider how defects in the tooth development sequence shed light on the consequences of biological and social transitions, contributing to our understanding of the evolution of modern human development and cognition.
  table of contents: Why development and why teeth? -- Development schedule, body size and brain size -- How teeth grow in living primates -- Microscopic markers of growth in dental tissues -- Building dental development sequences -- Human evolution, pace of development and life history -- Dental markers of disease and malnutrition -- Health, stress and evolution : case studies in bioarchaeology and paleoanthropology -- Conclusions.
  note: Simon Hillson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-301) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Dental anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Teeth
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Human remains (Archaeology)
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical
  classification: GN209 .H58 2014
  classification: 599.9/43
  identifier: 9781107011335 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107011337 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013044151
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131104
    record change date: 20140603145402.0
    record identifier: in00003456561