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Teeth: A Very Short Introduction

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Peter S Ungar(Author)
137 pages, 29 b/w illustrations
Teeth: A Very Short Introduction
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  • Teeth: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 9780199670598 Paperback Mar 2014 Out of Print #207469
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About this book

Teeth are amazing – the product of half a billion years of evolution. They provide fuel for the body by breaking apart other living things; and they must do it again and again over a lifetime without themselves being broken in the process. This means that plants and animals have developed tough or hard tissues for protection, and teeth have evolved ways to sharpen or strengthen themselves to overcome those defences. And just as different jobs require different tools, animals with different diets have different shaped teeth to deal with the variety of foods that they eat.

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter S. Ungar, an award-winning author and leading scientist, presents the story of teeth. Ungar outlines the key concepts, including insights into the origin of teeth and their evolution. Considering why teeth are important, he describes how they are made, and how they work, including their fundamental importance in the fossil record. Ungar finishes with a review of mammal teeth, looking at how they evolved and how recent changes to our diet are now affecting dental health.

Contents

1. Teeth matter
2. Types and parts of teeth
3. What teeth do: food and feeding
4. The origin of teeth and teeth in non-mammals
5. The evolution of teeth in mammals
6. Mammal teeth today
7. Human teeth and their history
8. Endless forms

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Peter S. Ungar received his PhD in Anthropological Sciences from Stony Brook University and taught Gross Anatomy in the medical schools at Johns Hopkins and Duke before moving to the University of Arkansas, where he now serves as Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. He has written or co-authored more than 125 scientific papers on ecology and evolution for books and journals including Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and authored the book Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, which won the 2010 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers for the best book in the biological sciences.

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Peter S Ungar(Author)
137 pages, 29 b/w illustrations
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