The tooth of perfection: functional and spatial constraints on mammalian tooth shape
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- 31 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Vol. 78 (2), 173-191
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00146.x
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