Primate dentitions vary widely both between genera and between species
within a genus. This book is a comparative dental anatomy of the teeth of
living non-human primates that brings together information from many
disciplines to present the most useful and comprehensive database possible in one consolidated text. The core of the book consists of comparative morphological and metrical descriptions with analyses, reference
tables and illustrations of the permanent dentitions of 85 living primate
species to establish a baseline for future investigations. The book also
includes information on dental microstructure and its importance in
understanding taxonomic relationships between species, data on deciduous dentitions, prenatal dental development and ontogenetic processes,
and material to aid age estimation and life history studies. Primate
Dentition will be an important reference work for researchers in primatology, dental and physical anthropology, comparative anatomy and
dentistry as well as vertebrate paleontology and veterinary science