S Benazzi, HN Nguyen, O Kullmer, K Kupczik - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Dental biomechanics based on finite element (FE) analysis is attracting enormous interest in dentistry, biology, anthropology and palaeontology. Nonetheless …
G Oxilia, M Peresani, M Romandini, C Matteucci… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Prehistoric dental treatments were extremely rare and the few documented cases are known from the Neolithic, when the adoption of early farming culture caused an increase of carious …
RS Sender, DS Strait - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Teeth must fracture foods while avoiding being fractured themselves. This study evaluated dome biomechanical models used to describe tooth strength. Finite-element analysis (FEA) …
MM Skinner, Z Alemseged, C Gaunitz… - Journal of human …, 2015 - Elsevier
Enamel thickness continues to be an important morphological character in hominin systematics and is frequently invoked in dietary reconstructions of Plio-Pleistocene hominin …
I Nudel, A Pokhojaev, Y Bitterman, N Shpack… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human dentin consists of a primary layer produced during tooth formation in early childhood and a second layer which first forms upon tooth eruption and continues throughout life …
S Benazzi, HN Nguyen, O Kullmer, JJ Hublin - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Most of the morphological features recognized in hominin teeth, particularly the topography of the occlusal surface, are generally interpreted as an evolutionary functional adaptation for …
Abstract Locality 1, in the Lower Cave of the Zhoukoudian cave complex, China, is one of the most important Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological and archaeological sites …
L Buti, A Le Cabec, D Panetta, M Tripodi… - Journal of Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
Enamel thickness figures prominently in studies of human evolution, particularly for taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleodietary reconstruction. Attention has focused on molar …
S Benazzi, HN Nguyen, O Kullmer… - Journal of Anatomy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Taurodontism (ie enlarged pulp chamber with concomitant apical displacement of the root bi/trifurcation) is considered a dental anomaly with relatively low incidence in contemporary …