Reading Teeth
March 26, 2020
A person’s teeth provide a “faithful biological archive for the entirety of life,” says a researcher who has developed a technique (reported in the news here and published here) for teasing out their clues to better understand human evolution. As additional information to chew on, a book recently reviewed in Issues examines how teeth, once of secondary interest behind bones, are gaining increasing attention among anthropologists as “the most abundant human remains in the fossil record [that] also provide a more accurate picture of an individual’s underlying genome.”