Development of Teeth
Age of the first tooth fossils
What is 150 Million years.
Number of teeth in an adult human body
What is 32
According to Neil Shubin this is the hardest part of the human body, making it the most likely to fossillize.
What is Tooth enamel
Primary evolutionary function of the boney plates found on the skin of ancient jawless fish like ostracoderms.
What is Protection/Defense?
Name for hard calcium-rich mineral that make up human teeth and ancient fish armor
What is Hydroxyapatite
These two reasons explained by search for teeth was so vital.
Their shapes reveal what animals ate and how they processed food. Second, teeth are extremely hard, making them much more likely to survive fossilization than soft tissues.
Teeth, hair, scales, feathers, and mammary glands all share a common origin, all made from this during embryonic development?
What is ectoderm and mesoderm?
A unique features allows mammals to chew food with extreme precision, unlike reptiles whose teeth simply pass by each other?
What is Occlusion?
This location is where Cesar hides his Human Teeth Collection