Diet plays an incontrovertible role in primate evolution, affecting anatomy, growth and development, behavior, and social structure. It should come as no surprise that a myriad of methods for reconstructing diet have developed, mostly utilizing the element that is not only most common in the fossil record but also most pertinent to diet: teeth. Twenty years ago, the union of traditional, anatomical analyses with emerging scanning and imaging technologies led to the development of a new method for quantifying tooth shape and reconstructing the diets of extinct primates. This method became known as dental topography.

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牙齿形状景观：灵长类动物牙齿地形 20 多年的研究。


饮食在灵长类动物的进化中发挥着无可争议的作用，影响着解剖结构、生长发育、行为和社会结构。毫不奇怪，已经开发出无数重建饮食的方法，其中大部分利用了不仅在化石记录中最常见而且与饮食最相关的元素：牙齿。二十年前，传统的解剖分析与新兴的扫描和成像技术的结合导致了一种量化牙齿形状和重建已灭绝灵长类动物饮食的新方法的开发。这种方法被称为牙齿地形图。