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The Diets of Early Hominins by Ungar, Peter S., Sponheimer, Matt

“…Diet changes are considered key events in human evolution. Most studies of early hominin diets focused on tooth size, shape, and craniomandibular morphology,…”
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Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets by Scott, Robert S., Teaford, Mark F., Ungar, Peter S.

“…Dental microwear has long been used as evidence concerning the diets of extinct species. Here, we present a comparative baseline series of dental microwear…”
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New model to explain tooth wear with implications for microwear formation and diet reconstruction by Xia, Jing, Zheng, Jing, Huang, Diaodiao, Tian, Z. Ryan, Chen, Lei, Zhou, Zhongrong, Ungar, Peter S., Qian, Linmao

“…Paleoanthropologists and vertebrate paleontologists have for decades debated the etiology of tooth wear and its implications for understanding the diets of…”
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Neandertal versus Modern Human Dietary Responses to Climatic Fluctuations by El Zaatari, Sireen, Grine, Frederick E, Ungar, Peter S, Hublin, Jean-Jacques

“…The Neandertal lineage developed successfully throughout western Eurasia and effectively survived the harsh and severely changing environments of the…”
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Dental microwear and diet of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei by Ungar, Peter S, Grine, Frederick E, Teaford, Mark F

“…The Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei had enormous, flat, thickly enameled cheek teeth, a robust cranium and mandible, and inferred massive,…”
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Brief communication: Dental microwear and diet of Homo naledi by Ungar, Peter S., Berger, Lee R.

“…Objectives A recent study of dental chipping suggested that Homo naledi teeth were exposed to “acute trauma” on a regular basis during life, presumably from…”
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Implications of diet for the extinction of saber-toothed cats and American lions by Desantis, Larisa R G, Schubert, Blaine W, Scott, Jessica R, Ungar, Peter S

“…The saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, and American lion, Panthera atrox, were among the largest terrestrial carnivores that lived during the Pleistocene,…”
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Rodent incisor microwear as a proxy for ecological reconstruction by Caporale, Salvatore S., Ungar, Peter S.

“…Increasing attention has been directed toward rodents as a source of paleoenvironmental data due to their discrete home ranges and their ubiquity and abundance…”
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Hard-object feeding in sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and interpretation of early hominin feeding ecology by Daegling, David J, McGraw, W Scott, Ungar, Peter S, Pampush, James D, Vick, Anna E, Bitty, E Anderson

“…Morphology of the dentofacial complex of early hominins has figured prominently in the inference of their dietary adaptations. Recent theoretical analysis of…”
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The Role of Food Stiffness in Dental Microwear Feature Formation by Daegling, David J, Hua, Li Cheng, Ungar, Peter S

“…Highlights • Foods fractured on dental enamel create changes in microwear textures. • Food stiffness is a poor predictor of the magnitude of texture change. •…”
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The dental microwear of hard‐object feeding in laboratory Sapajus apella and its implications for dental microwear formation by Teaford, Mark F., Ungar, Peter S., Taylor, Andrea B., Ross, Callum F., Vinyard, Christopher J.

“…Objectives This study seeks to determine if (a) consumption of hard food items or a mixture of food items leads to the formation of premolar or molar microwear…”
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Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania by Crittenden, Alyssa N, Sorrentino, John, Moonie, Sheniz A, Peterson, Mika, Mabulla, Audax, Ungar, Peter S

“…Conventional wisdom holds that a decline in oral health accompanies the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, given increased consumption of…”
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Dental evidence for the diets of Plio-Pleistocene hominins by Ungar, Peter S.

“…Diet is fundamental to the interaction between an organism and its environment, and is therefore an important key to understanding ecology and evolution. It…”
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Dental microwear and Pliocene paleocommunity ecology of bovids, primates, rodents, and suids at Kanapoi by Ungar, Peter S., Abella, Elicia F., Burgman, Jenny H.E., Lazagabaster, Ignacio A., Scott, Jessica R., Delezene, Lucas K., Manthi, Fredrick K., Plavcan, J. Michael, Ward, Carol V.

“…Reconstructions of habitat at sites like Kanapoi are key to understanding the environmental circumstances in which hominins evolved during the early Pliocene…”
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Was the giant short-faced bear a hyper-scavenger? A new approach to the dietary study of ursids using dental microwear textures by Donohue, Shelly L, DeSantis, Larisa R G, Schubert, Blaine W, Ungar, Peter S

“…Dramatic environmental changes associated with global cooling since the late Miocene, and the onset of glacial-interglacial cycles in the Pleistocene served as…”
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Technical note: An in vitro study of dental microwear formation using the BITE Master II chewing machine by Hua, Li-Cheng, Brandt, Elizabeth T., Meullenet, Jean-Francois, Zhou, Zhong-Rong, Ungar, Peter S.

“…ABSTRACT Dental microwear has been used for decades to reconstruct the diets of fossil hominins and bioarchaeological populations. The basic theory has been…”
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Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins by Ungar, Peter S, Scott, Robert S, Bergstrom, Torbjorn S, Brown, Christopher A, Grine, Frederick E, Teaford, Mark F, Walker, Alan

“…Reconstructing the diets of extinct hominins is essential to understanding the paleobiology and evolutionary history of our lineage. Dental microwear, the…”
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Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations by Scott, Robert S., Ungar, Peter S., Bergstrom, Torbjorn S., Brown, Christopher A., Childs, Benjamin E., Teaford, Mark F., Walker, Alan

“…Dental microwear analysis is commonly used to infer aspects of diet in extinct primates. Conventional methods of microwear analysis have usually been limited…”
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Ecogeographic variation in Neandertal dietary habits: Evidence from occlusal molar microwear texture analysis by El Zaatari, Sireen, Grine, Frederick E., Ungar, Peter S., Hublin, Jean-Jacques

“…In the late Middle and early Late Pleistocene, Neandertals inhabited a wide variety of ecological zones across western Eurasia during both glacial and…”
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Diet reduces the effect of exogenous grit on tooth microwear by Hua, Licheng, Chen, Jianbin, Ungar, Peter S

“…Exogenous grit adherent to the surface of food items and food fracture properties have each been considered important factors contributing to pattern and…”
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