Variation in Dental Microwear Textures and Dietary Variation in African Old World Monkeys (Cercopithecidae)

Variation in Dental Microwear Textures and Dietary Variation in African Old World Monkeys (Cercopithecidae)

abstract: Dietary diversity is an important component of species’s ecology that often relates to species’s abundance and geographic distribution. Additionally, dietary diversity is involved in many hypotheses regarding the geographic distribution and evolutionary fate of fossil primates. However, in...

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Other Authors: Shapiro, Amy Elissa (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Physical anthropology
Paleontology
Paleoecology
dental microwear texture analysis
dietary diversity
hard object feeding
hominins
Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae)
scale-sensitive fractal analysis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29886

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