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Microwear dental patterns as a proxy to consider when predicting the diet and ecology in Mammals

Introduction In using dental microwear analysis, researchers attempt to reconstruct the diet and ecology of extant animal species, as well as attempt to provide quantitative explanations as to why certain behaviours in nature are expressed in one group and not in another, despite occupying the same ecological niche. The transition from two-dimensional dental tools to…