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8 - Seeing RED

A Novel Solution to a Familiar Categorical Data Problem

from Part II - (Re)Discovery of Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2019

By
Cathy Willermet ,
John Daniels ,
Heather J. H. Edgar  and
Joseph McKean
Edited by
Cathy Willermet  and
Sang-Hee Lee
Cathy Willermet
Affiliation:
Central Michigan University
Sang-Hee Lee
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
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Summary

Biological anthropologists interested in population interactions compare biological relationships among living populations, among past populations, and between living and past populations. To do this, we utilize datasets that can be compared equivalently across space and time. One such source of data comes from dental morphological traits, nonmetric characteristics observable on the crown surfaces of teeth. Tooth morphology is largely under genetic control and less affected by environmental factors than many other tissue systems (Hillson 1996; Larsen and Kelley 1991; Scott et al. 2018), and therefore presents an effective dataset with which to trace intrapopulation variation, interpopulation relationships, and microevolution.

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Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology
The Strange and the Familiar
 , pp. 146 - 173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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