Modern humans sex estimation through dental tissue patterns of maxillary canines
Résumé
Objectives Dental tissue proportions of human permanent canines is one of only a few sexually dimorphic features that is present in childhood and maintained in adults, offering the opportunity for this to be used in sex determination. This study assesses dental tissue volumes and surface areas of maxillary permanent canines in a sample of known sex to provide new data and to explore the potential of these variables as reliable sexual estimators.
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Anthropologie biologiqueOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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