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SUBMITTER: van Casteren A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990759 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Casteren Adam A Lucas Peter W PW Strait David S DS Michael Shaji S Bierwisch Nick N Schwarzer Norbert N Al-Fadhalah Khaled J KJ Almusallam Abdulwahab S AS Thai Lidia A LA Saji Sreeja S Shekeban Ali A Swain Michael V MV
Royal Society open science 20180523 5
Mammalian tooth wear research reveals contrasting patterns seemingly linked to diet: irregularly pitted enamel surfaces, possibly from consuming hard seeds, versus roughly aligned linearly grooved surfaces, associated with eating tough leaves. These patterns are important for assigning diet to fossils, including hominins. However, experiments establishing conditions necessary for such damage challenge this paradigm. Lucas <i>et al</i>. (Lucas <i>et al</i>. 2013 <i>J. R. Soc. Interface</i><b>10</ ...[more]