Dental wear patterns reveal dietary ecology and season of death in a historical chimpanzee population.

Dental wear analyses have been widely used to interpret the dietary ecology in primates. However, it remains unclear to what extent a combination of wear analyses acting at distinct temporal scales can be beneficial in interpreting the tooth use of primates with a high variation in their intraspecif...

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Main Authors: Julia Stuhlträger, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Ottmar Kullmer, Marcel M Janocha, Roman M Wittig, Kornelius Kupczik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251309