Primate Dentition
An Introduction to the Teeth of Non-human Primates

A comprehensive and comparative reference work on the permanent and deciduous dentitions of extant primates.

Daris R. Swindler (Author)

9780521018647, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 August 2005

316 pages, 73 b/w illus. 229 tables
23.5 x 15.5 x 2 cm, 0.639 kg

'… an important reference work …'. Human Evolution

Primate dentitions vary widely both between genera and between species within a genus. This book is a comparative dental anatomy of the teeth 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 book also includes information on 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. Primate Dentition will be an important reference work for researchers in primatology, dental and physical anthropology, comparative anatomy and dentistry as well as vertebrate paleontology and veterinary science.

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.

Subject Areas: Human biology [PSX], Primates [PSVW79], Physical anthropology [JHMP]