The diets of early hominins

PS Ungar, M Sponheimer - science, 2011 - science.org
Diet changes are considered key events in human evolution. Most studies of early hominin
diets focused on tooth size, shape, and craniomandibular morphology, as well as stone tools …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian dental function and wear: a review

PS Ungar - Biosurface and Biotribology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a brief synopsis of work on relationships between mammalian tooth
form and function, and considers the role of dental wear in studies of mammal teeth …

Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets

M Sponheimer, Z Alemseged… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Carbon isotope studies of early hominins from southern Africa showed that their diets
differed markedly from the diets of extant apes. Only recently, however, has a major influx of …

Micromechanics of machining and wear in hard and brittle materials

BR Lawn, O Borrero‐Lopez, H Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hard and brittle solids with covalent/ionic bonding are used in a wide range of modern‐day
manufacturing technologies. Optimization of a shaping process can shorten manufacturing …

The diet of Australopithecus sediba

AG Henry, PS Ungar, BH Passey, M Sponheimer… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Specimens of Australopithecus sediba from the site of Malapa, South Africa (dating from
approximately 2 million years (Myr) ago) present a mix of primitive and derived traits that …

Toothsonic: Earable authentication via acoustic toothprint

Z Wang, Y Ren, Y Chen, J Yang - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Earables (ear wearables) are rapidly emerging as a new platform encompassing a diverse
range of personal applications. The traditional authentication methods hence become less …

[HTML][HTML] Current perspectives on tooth implantation, attachment, and replacement in Amniota

TJC Bertin, B Thivichon-Prince, ARH LeBlanc… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Teeth and dentitions contain many morphological characters which give them a particularly
important weight in comparative anatomy, systematics, physiology and ecology. As teeth are …

[HTML][HTML] The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends

C Hendrickx, O Mateus, M da Lourinhã, R Araújo… - 2019 - palaeo-electronica.org
Isolated theropod teeth are some of the most common fossils in the dinosaur fossil record
and are continually reported in the literature. Recently developed quantitative methods have …

Sox2 marks epithelial competence to generate teeth in mammals and reptiles

E Juuri, M Jussila, K Seidel, S Holmes, P Wu… - …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
Tooth renewal is initiated from epithelium associated with existing teeth. The development of
new teeth requires dental epithelial cells that have competence for tooth formation, but …

Paleogene Xenarthra and the evolution of South American mammals

TJ Gaudin, DA Croft - Journal of Mammalogy, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies show Xenarthra to be even more isolated systematically from other placental
mammals than traditionally thought. The group not only represents 1 of 4 primary placental …