Browsing by Author "Allen, Kari L"
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Dietary inference from upper and lower molar morphology in platyrrhine primates.
(PLoS One, 2015)The correlation between diet and dental topography is of importance to paleontologists seeking to diagnose ecological adaptations in extinct taxa. Although the subject is well represented in the literature, few studies directly ... -
Dietary quality and encephalization in platyrrhine primates.
(Proc Biol Sci, 2012-02-22)The high energetic costs of building and maintaining large brains are thought to constrain encephalization. The 'expensive-tissue hypothesis' (ETH) proposes that primates (especially humans) overcame this constraint through ... -
Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates.
(J Hum Evol, 2016-08)Primate species typically differ from other mammals in having bony canals that enclose the branches of the internal carotid artery (ICA) as they pass through the middle ear. The presence and relative size of these canals ... -
Wear and its effects on dental topography measures in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata).
(Am J Phys Anthropol, 2016-12)OBJECTIVES: Three dental topography measurements: Dirichlet Normal Energy (DNE), Relief Index (RFI), and Orientation Patch Count Rotated (OPCR) are examined for their interaction with measures of wear, within and between ...
