The early Miocene catarrhine fossil record of East Africa represents a diverse and extensive
adaptive radiation. It is well accepted that these taxa encompass a dietary range similar to …

The study of cranial variation has a long, and somewhat difficult, history within anthropology.
Much of this difficulty is rooted in the historical use of craniometric data to justify essentialist …

Molar morphology is shaped by phylogenetic history and adaptive processes related to food
processing. Topographic parameters of the occlusal surface, such as sharpness and relief …

When dental morphological variation within extant species is used as a guideline to partition
variation within fossil samples into species, the underlying assumption is that fossil species …

Mice from the Orkney archipelago exhibit an important diversity regarding molar shape.
While on some islands mice display a usual dental pattern, teeth from other islands display …

The ecology, and particularly the diet, of treeshrews (order Scandentia) is poorly understood
compared to that of their close relatives, the primates. This stems partially from treeshrews …

Because teeth are the most easily preserved part of the vertebrate skeleton and are
particularly morphologically variable in mammals, studies of fossil mammals rely heavily on …

This study describes and tests a new method of calculating a shape metric known as the
relief index (RFI) on lower second molars of extant euarchontan mammals, including …

Dental size and shape evolution in a Late Miocene lineage of murine rodents is analyzed,
based on a set of deposits from the Teruel Basin (Spain). The lineage leads from …

A thorough knowledge of biological variation in extant primates is imperative for interpreting
variation, and for delineating species in primate biology and paleobiology. This is especially …