Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Author "Carter, Katherine E."

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    • The evolution of anthropoid molar proportions 

      Carter, Katherine E.; Worthington, Steven (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Developmental processes that underpin morphological variation have become a focus of interest when attempting to interpret macroevolutionary patterns. Recently, the Dental Inhibitory Cascade (dic) model has ...

    • The Evolution of Third Molar Agenesis and Impaction 

      Carter, Katherine (2016-05-19)
      Up to 70% of modern humans experience problems with their third molars, whether it is failure of proper eruption (impaction) or not erupting at all (agenesis). Thus, it is a commonly used example for explaining why humans ...

    • News and views: Non-metric dental traits and hominin phylogeny 

      Carter, Katherine Elizabeth; Worthington, Steven; Smith, Tanya (Elsevier BV, 2014)
      Analyses of hominin dental remains conventionally include measurements of tooth crown sizes and descriptions of occlusal morphology such as minor accessory cusps, fissure patterns, and ridges (e.g., Wood, 1981, Aiello and ...