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A decade has past since I last reviewed the various ways in which studies of dental development can contribute to what was then still called hominid paleobiology (Wood, 1996) A little more than eighty years have passed but Adolph Schultz’s (1924) seminal contribution is still largely ignored and his paper is seldom cited.
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- Wild Chimpanzee
- Tooth Crown
- Dental Development
- Tooth Type
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Wood, B. (2007). Introduction. In: Bailey, S.E., Hublin, JJ. (eds) Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5845-5_15
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