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Among the diverse tasks of the human dentition, the uptake and crushing of food is doubtlessly the most characteristic. The English Victorian naturalist Richard Owen (1804–1892) underscored the importance of this function in the introduction to his classic treatise Odontography (1840–1845): “Teeth are firm substances attached to the parities of the beginning of the alimentary canal, adapted for seizing, lacerating, dividing and triturating the food, and are the chief agents in the mechanical part of digestive function”. This function, however, did not emerge until a late phase of evolution. Before that time, primitive, tooth-like structures or elements such as gill traps had facilitated food uptake (Gutmann 1997). Other utilizations of the teeth are secondary, for instance the use of teeth as weapon or tool, as a structure for the characterization of age and sex, or as ornamental objects (Kanner and Remy 1924; Alt et al. 1990; Kelley and Larsen 1991; Alt and Pichler, this volume). Additionally, among humans teeth have great significance for vocal articulation (Schumacher et al. 1990) and for the esthetics of the appearance (Alt 1994b).
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Alt, K.W., Loring Brace, C., Türp, J.C. (1998). The History of Dental Anthropology. In: Alt, K.W., Rösing, F.W., Teschler-Nicola, M. (eds) Dental Anthropology. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7496-8_3
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