Teeth
A Very Short Introduction
$23.90
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2014
Summary
Teeth are amazing – the product of half a billion years of evolution. They provide fuel for the body by breaking apart other living things; and they must do it again and again over a lifetime without themselves being broken in the process. This means that plants and animals have developed tough or hard tissues for protection, and teeth have evolved ways to sharpen or strengthen themselves to overcome those defences. And just as different jobs require different tools, animals with different di…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199670598 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199670595 |
| Author: | Peter S. Ungar |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 122g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 114mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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About The Author
Peter S. Ungar
Peter S. Ungar received his PhD in Anthropological Sciences from Stony Brook University and taught Gross Anatomy in the medical schools at Johns Hopkins and Duke before moving to the University of Arkansas, where he now serves as Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. He has written or co-authored more than 125 scientific papers on ecology and evolution for books and journals including Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and authored the book Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, which won the 2010 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers for the best book in the biological sciences.
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