Tag: teeth
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Christopher Schmidt, University of Indianapolis – The Teeth of Herculaneum
We’re still learning about the cities buried by Mount Vesuvius centuries ago. Christopher Schmidt, professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Indianapolis, explores the people of one of these cities and how we’re learning more about them from their teeth. Christopher W. Schmidt is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Bioarchaeology Laboratory,…
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Alistair Evans, Monash University – Predicting Human Evolution through our Teeth
How similar are our teeth to our ancestor’s? Alistair Evans, senior research fellow at Monash University, explores if our ancestors can be identified just by finding some of their loose teeth. Dr Evans is an evolutionary biologist who studies the teeth of mammals. This includes how they break food, how they develop in the…