Comments on: Book review – Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins

By: Book review – An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:25:20 +0000

[…] Functional morphology also involves techniques old and modern, whether histology of fossil bones, studies of dental microwear, or biomechanical analysis using techniques borrowed from engineering such as […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:50:45 +0000

[…] chapter on feeding e.g. discusses jaws, teeth, and the use of isotopes to determine diet, but not microwear analysis of teeth. What I found most surprising is that Benton does not introduce the concept of trace […]

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By: Book review – Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:39:11 +0000

[…] dental microwear. Teeth not only erode, but are eroded in turn, though this has been the subject of two popular books not so long ago. A more understandable omission are the traces of wear, disease, and […]

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By: Book review – Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:50:43 +0000

[…] interactions between environment and body size. Teeth make up much of the fossil record and e.g. dental microwear and isotope analyses can reveal diet, while high-crowned teeth tell something about past plant […]

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By: Book review – Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:02:52 +0000

[…] Agriculture has a bad reputation amongst historians. Palaeopathological findings, such as those gleaned from teeth, do not lie: our health suffered when we started farming. However, this narrative “distorts […]

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By: Book review – What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:43:00 +0000

[…] bargain that initially took a heavy toll on our health. Our stature diminished and especially our teeth recorded the effects of this dietary change. But did we suffer the same epidemic of lifestyle […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:13:49 +0000

[…] needed to distinguish attacks on living animals from post-mortem scavenging. In turn, food leaves tell-tale traces of microwear on a tooth’s surface. More exotic – and controversial – are gastroliths or stomach stones […]

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By: Book review – The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:04:01 +0000

[…] Arabian Peninsula. And how, with modern technology (and often a lot of hard work) we can extract unbelievable detail from fossil teeth, which are frequently the only remains we find. Additionally, he spices up his […]

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By: Book review – The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:43:46 +0000

[…] last four chapters, then, deal with human skeletal remains. From my reviews of Evolution’s Bite and The Tales Teeth Tell I have learned what teeth can reveal about diet and disease, but bones can […]

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By: Book review – Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:11:18 +0000

[…] to ask. I was familiar with some of these, such as ancient DNA and the microscopic patterns of wear and tear left on teeth, but many were entirely new to me. The use of computers to fit stone flakes and […]

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