Inter-island variation in tooth size of the Cook islanders, and their biological affinities with other Oceanic people.

Yamada, Hiroyuki; Kawamoto, Keiichi; Sakai, Takuro; Katayama, Ken‐ichi

doi:10.1537/ase1911.96.435

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“…Since Gorjanovic-Kramberger's (1906) report of this type of incisor in Neanderthals, few reports have been published on this matter in modern humans (Hanihara,1997, Yamada et al, 1999. Yamada et al (2000) found well-developed basal tubercles similar to that of Sinanthropus on the lingual surface of the central incisor of the native Cook Islanders in Polynesia, during long-termed dental anthro pologicalresearch in these islands (Yamada et al, 1988). Their study was one of the few reports on this trait in modern humans, and it was suggested that the trait was of importance in Oceanic dental anthropology.…”

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Distribution of Tabercle-shaped Incisors in South Pacific Populations.

Kanazawa¹,

Shirono²,

Nakayama³

et al. 2001

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The basal tubercle and its related traits on the basal part of the lingual surface of maxillary central incisors vary in developmental grades. Although a welldeveloped basal tubercle was observed in fossil humans, much attention to this trait has not been paid in modern humans. We compared five morphological traits on the lingual surface of maxillary incisors among seven Pacific populations. Results showed that the South-Pacific populations examined in this study especially Fijians and New Guinea Highlanders had a well-developed basal tubercle, but with a low fre quencyof shovel-shaped incisors. On the contrary, Japanese and Kiribatian popula tionsof this study had a high frequency of shovel-shaped incisors, but a low fre quencyof tubercle-shaped incisors. It was suggested that the basal tubercle is one of the key dental traits in characterizing Pacific populations.

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