Primate Dentition
Primate Dentition
Primate Dentition provides a comparative dental anatomy of living non-human primates that brings together information from many disciplines to present the most useful and comprehensive database possible in one consolidated text. The core of the book consists of comparative morphological and metrical descriptions with analyses, reference tables, and illustrations of the permanent dentitions of 85 living primate species to establish a baseline for future investigations. The volume also discusses dental microstructure and its importance in understanding taxonomic relationships between species, data on deciduous dentitions, prenatal dental development and ontogenetic processes, and material to aid age estimation and life history studies.
- Brings together information scattered in a wide variety of disciplines to provide the most comprehensive database possible
- Covers permanent dentitions of over 80 species of extant primates, and includes microstructural detail, developmental processes and deciduous dentitions where possible
- Invaluable appendixes include odontometric details necessary for future research
Reviews & endorsements
"...Swindler's book is a classic, and I am delighted to see this updated version come along. Students and researchers alike have always, and will for years to come, find it useful for its stated purpose--an introductory guide to primate dentitions." International Journal of Primatology
"Swindler ... has been a leader in the study of the teeth of primates ... for decades. Following introductory material on the structure and growth of teeth, Swindler describes and illustrates the teeth of nonhuman primates systematically, by group." Choice
Product details
August 2005Paperback
9780521018647
316 pages
235 × 155 × 20 mm
0.639kg
73 b/w illus. 229 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dental anatomy
- 3. Dental development
- 4. The deciduous dentition
- 5. Superfamily Lemuroidea
- 6. Family Cebidae
- 7. Family Cercopithecidae
- 8. Hylobatidae
- 9. Pongidae
- Odontometric appendix
- Dental eruption appendix
- Glossary
- References
- Taxonomic index.
