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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Evolutionary Anthropology

The landscape of tooth shape: Over 20 years of dental topography in primates

  • Michael Berthaume
  • Vincent Lazzari
  • Franck Guy
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Abstract

Diet plays an incontrovertible role in primate evolution, affecting anatomy, growth and development, behavior, and social structure. It should come as no surprise that a myriad of methods for reconstructing diet have developed, mostly utilizing the element that is not only most common in the fossil record but also most pertinent to diet: teeth. Twenty years ago, the union of traditional, anatomical analyses with emerging scanning and imaging technologies led to the development of a new method for quantifying tooth shape and reconstructing the diets of extinct primates. This method became known as dental topography.

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@article{berthaume2026landscape,
  title = {{The landscape of tooth shape: Over 20 years of dental topography in primates}},
  author = {Michael Berthaume and Vincent Lazzari and Franck Guy},
  journal = {Evolutionary Anthropology},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  doi = {10.1002/evan.21856},
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-03037395v1},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - The landscape of tooth shape: Over 20 years of dental topography in primates
AU  - Michael Berthaume
AU  - Vincent Lazzari
AU  - Franck Guy
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/03
JO  - Evolutionary Anthropology
DO  - 10.1002/evan.21856
UR  - https://hal.science/hal-03037395v1
AB  - Diet plays an incontrovertible role in primate evolution, affecting anatomy, growth and development, behavior, and social structure. It should come as no surprise that a myriad of methods for reconstructing diet have developed, mostly utilizing the element that is not only most common in the fossil record but also most pertinent to diet: teeth. Twenty years ago, the union of traditional, anatomical analyses with emerging scanning and imaging technologies led to the development of a new method for quantifying tooth shape and reconstructing the diets of extinct primates. This method became known as dental topography.
SN  - 1060-1538
SN  - 1520-6505
ER  -