The tooth of perfection: functional and spatial constraints on mammalian tooth shape
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The tooth of perfection: functional and spatial constraints on mammalian tooth shape
This paper addresses the question of how close mammalian teeth are to ideal functional forms. An ‘ideal’ form is a morphology predicted to be the best functional shape according to information of the relationships between shape and function. Deviations from an ideal form are likely to indicate the presence of developmental or genetic constraints on form. Model tools were constructed to conform ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0024-4066,1095-8312
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00146.x