Diet and Molar Microwear

20年来，对人类牙齿微磨损模式的研究 和其他灵长类动物已经承诺要揭示新的识别方式 这些动物的饮食习惯和化石祖先，因为 牙齿微磨损模式是可恢复的。 但由于 研究人员发现的复杂性， 基本上没有实现 该项目将是第一个研究微磨损模式， 牙齿，并将这些模式与观察到的进食模式联系起来， 有关的动物。 物理特性（如 食物的营养价值，将被确定并与之相关。 这些和其他发现。 这项研究将对 体质人类学动物行为学和牙科学

For 20 years, studies of microwear patterns on teeth of humans and other primates has promised to reveal new ways of discerning dietary habits of those animals and also fossil ancestors, since dental microwear patterns are recoverable. However, because of the complexities that researchers uncovered, this early promise has gone largely unfulfilled. This project will be the first to study microwear patterns on teeth and relate those patterns to observed patterns of eating by the particular animals concerned. The physical traits (eg hardness) of the foods consumed will be established and related to these and other findings. This study will be of importance to physical anthropology, animal behavior, and dentistry.