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For some history of teeth (not just human teeth) try the BBC In Our Time podcast episode The Evolution of Teeth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003zbg http
by andrewl 8y ago
For some history of teeth (not just human teeth) try the BBC In Our Time podcast episode The Evolution of Teeth:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003zbg https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003zbg
Being a Melvyn Bragg podcast, it includes a reading list:
Barry K. B. Berkovitz, Nothing But the Tooth: A Dental Odyssey (Elsevier, 2016)
John A. Long, The Rise of Fishes. 500 Million Years of Evolution (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage, 2009)
T. M. Smith, The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, and Behaviour (MIT Press, 2018)
Peter S. Ungar, Teeth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Peter S. Ungar, Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet and Human Origins (Princeton University Press, 2018)