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Thesis ID: CBB539136968

Development, Evolution, and Teeth: How We Came to Explain The Morphological Evolution of the Mammalian Dentition (2017)

MacCord, Katherine (Author)
Maienschein, Jane A. (Advisor)
Laubichler, Manfred Dietrich (Advisor)

Arizona State University
Maienschein, Jane A.
Laubichler, Manfred Dietrich

URI: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1897020627?accountid=12964

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 211 pp.
Language: English

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Mammalogy Evolutionary developmental biology Animal anatomy Animal morphology Tooth and teeth 19th century 20th century

This dissertation begins to lay out a small slice of the history of morphological research, and how it has changed, from the late 19th through the close of the 20th century. Investigators using different methods, addressing different questions, holding different assumptions, and coming from different research fields have pursued morphological research programs, i.e. research programs that explore the process of changing form. Subsequently, the way in which investigators have pursued and understood morphology has witnessed significant changes from the 19th century to modern day research. In order to trace this shifting history of morphology, I have selected a particular organ, teeth, and traced a tendril of research on the dentition beginning in the late 19th century and ending at the year 2000. But even focusing on teeth would be impossible; the scope of research on this organ is far too vast. Instead, I narrow this dissertation to investigation of research on a particular problem: explaining mammalian tooth morphology. How researchers have investigated mammalian tooth morphology and what counts as an explanation changed dramatically during this period.

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