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PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Peter S. Ungar is an American paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist. Life Peter S. Ungar is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas. Before arriving at Arkansas, he taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Duke University Medical Center.

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Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins (2005) (510)
Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors. (2000) (445)
Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations. (2006) (361)
Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity (2010) (239)
Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei (2008) (237)
Quantification of dental microwear by tandem scanning confocal microscopy and scale-sensitive fractal analyses. (2006) (234)
The Diets of Early Hominins (2011) (224)
Dental topography and diets of Australopithecus afarensis and early Homo. (2004) (219)
Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use (1996) (203)
Diet in early Homo : A review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility (2006) (186)
Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets. (2012) (166)
Error rates in dental microwear quantification using scanning electron microscopy. (2006) (165)
Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa (2007) (160)
The diet of Australopithecus sediba (2012) (155)
The dietary adaptations of European Miocene catarrhines. (1995) (155)
Hard-Object Feeding in Sooty Mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and Interpretation of Early Hominin Feeding Ecology (2011) (153)
A solution to the worn tooth conundrum in primate functional anatomy (2003) (152)
Mammalian dental function and wear: A review (2015) (147)
Dust accumulation in the canopy: a potential cause of dental microwear in primates. (1995) (146)
The evolution of human diet: The known, the unknown, and the unknowable (2004) (145)
EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF TOOTH WEAR ON FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: A PRELIMINARY STUDY USING DENTAL TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS (2000) (139)
Dental allometry, morphology, and wear as evidence for diet in fossil primates (1998) (137)
Fruit preferences of four sympatric primate species at Ketambe, northern Sumatra, Indonesia (1995) (129)
Molar microwear textures and the diets of Australopithecus anamensis and Australopithecus afarensis (2010) (129)
Molar microwear in Praeanthropus afarensis: evidence for dietary stasis through time and under diverse paleoecological conditions. (2006) (126)
Occlusal relief changes with molar wear in Pan troglodytes troglodytes and Gorilla gorilla gorilla (2003) (120)
Incisor size and wear in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus (1991) (118)
A new genus of large primate from the Late Oligocene of Lothidok, Turkana District, Kenya (1995) (118)
Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins. (2012) (117)
Multiscale analyses and characterizations of surface topographies (2018) (112)
Incisor microwear of Sumatran anthropoid primates. (1994) (104)
New model to explain tooth wear with implications for microwear formation and diet reconstruction (2015) (100)
Dental microwear texture analysis of hominins recovered by the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project, 1995-2007. (2012) (99)
Dental microwear and diets of African early Homo. (2006) (99)
Preliminary examination of non-occlusal dental microwear in anthropoids: implications for the study of fossil primates. (1996) (98)
Dental topography and molar wear in Alouatta palliata from Costa Rica. (2004) (98)
Ecogeographic variation in Neandertal dietary habits: evidence from occlusal molar microwear texture analysis. (2011) (95)
Dental Evidence for Diet in Some Miocene Catarrhines with Comments on the Effects of Phylogeny on the Interpretation of Adaptation (1997) (94)
Carnassial microwear and dietary behaviour in large carnivorans (2010) (92)
Technical note: Modeling primate occlusal topography using geographic information systems technology. (1998) (90)
Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution (2002) (88)
Patterns of ingestive behavior and anterior tooth use differences in sympatric anthropoid primates. (1994) (88)
Wear facets and enamel spalling in tyrannosaurid dinosaurs (2005) (86)
A semiautomated image analysis procedure for the quantification of dental microwear II. (2006) (82)
Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology: Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches (2008) (81)
Implications of Diet for the Extinction of Saber-Toothed Cats and American Lions (2012) (79)
Recent Advances on Multidisciplinary Research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium (2004) (78)
Technical note: Dental microwear textures of "Phase I" and "Phase II" facets. (2008) (78)
Incisor microwear, diet, and tooth use in three Amerindian populations. (1999) (77)
Mechanical defenses in leaves eaten by Costa Rican howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). (2006) (74)
Dental microwear texture analysis of two families of subfossil lemurs from Madagascar. (2009) (73)
Microwear evidence for Plio–Pleistocene bovid diets from Makapansgat Limeworks Cave, South Africa (2006) (73)
Gross Dental Wear and Dental Microwear in Historical Perspective (1998) (71)
A review of interproximal wear grooves on fossil hominin teeth with new evidence from Olduvai Gorge. (2001) (70)
Was the Giant Short-Faced Bear a Hyper-Scavenger? A New Approach to the Dietary Study of Ursids Using Dental Microwear Textures (2013) (64)
Dental topography and diets of four old world monkey species (2009) (63)
Dental Evidence for the Reconstruction of Diet in African Early Homo (2012) (63)
Neandertal versus Modern Human Dietary Responses to Climatic Fluctuations (2016) (61)
Craniofacial biomechanics and functional and dietary inferences in hominin paleontology. (2010) (59)
Was the Early Pliocene hominin 'Australopithecus' anamensis a hard object feeder? (2006) (58)
Correction: Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei (2008) (58)
Minimizing inter-microscope variability in dental microwear texture analysis (2016) (58)
Viewpoints: feeding mechanics, diet, and dietary adaptations in early hominins. (2013) (57)
Technical note: An in vitro study of dental microwear formation using the BITE Master II chewing machine. (2015) (55)
Folivory or fruit/seed predation for Mesopithecus, an earliest colobine from the late Miocene of Eurasia? (2009) (54)
Incisor microwear and feeding behavior in Alouatta seniculus and Cebus olivaceus (1990) (53)
Carnivoran dental microwear textures: comparability of carnassial facets and functional differentiation of postcanine teeth (2010) (52)
Relationship of incisor size to diet and anterior tooth use in sympatric sumatran anthropoids (1996) (51)
Developing a Geographic Information System (GIS) for Mapping and Analysing Fossil Deposits at Swartkrans, Gauteng Province, South Africa (2003) (51)
Dental microwear and palaeoecology of bovids from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Western Cape province, South Africa (2005) (48)
Neandertal incisor beveling. (1997) (47)
Dental microwear texture as a proxy for diet in xenarthrans (2013) (47)
Incisor labial surface wear striations in modern humans and their implications for handedness in Middle and Late Pleistocene hominids (1999) (44)
Early Neogene environments in East Africa: Evidence from dental microwear of tragulids (2012) (43)
Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania (2017) (41)
Erfkroon: a new Florisian fossil locality from fluvial contexts in the western Free State, South Africa (2000) (40)
Dental microwear of sympatric rodent species sampled across habitats in southern Africa: Implications for environmental influence. (2016) (40)
Dental Evidence for Diets of Early Homo (2009) (39)
Dental evidence for the diets of Plio-Pleistocene hominins. (2011) (39)
Dental Surface Texture Characterization Based on Erosive Tooth Wear Processes (2016) (38)
Reconstructing the Diets of Fossil Primates (2002) (37)
A Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Mio-Pliocene Hyaenids from Langebaanweg, South Africa (2012) (37)
A preliminary analysis of dental microwear as a proxy for diet and habitat in shrews (2014) (37)
Rodent incisor microwear as a proxy for ecological reconstruction (2016) (37)
Dental microwear texture analysis and diet in the Dmanisi hominins. (2011) (35)
Dental topography and human evolution with comments on the diets of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus (2007) (35)
Incisor microwear textures of five bioarcheological groups (2010) (34)
The evolutionary path of least resistance (2016) (34)
Tooth form and function: insights into adaptation through the analysis of dental microwear. (2009) (33)
Dental topography and diets of platyrrhine primates (2018) (32)
In Vivo Rates of Dental Microwear Formation in Laboratory Primates Fed Different Food Items (2017) (32)
Enamel crystallite strength and wear: nanoscale responses of teeth to chewing loads (2017) (32)
Feeding Height and Niche Separation in Sympatric Sumatran Monkeys and Apes (1996) (30)
Neanderthal teeth from Moula-Guercy, Ardèche, France. (2013) (30)
Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins (2017) (30)
MOLAR MICROWEAR AND SHEARING CREST DEVELOPMENT IN MIOCENE CATARRHINES (2004) (29)
The role of food stiffness in dental microwear feature formation. (2016) (29)
Craniofacial morphology, diet and incisor use in three native American populations (2000) (28)
Anterior dental microwear texture analysis of the Krapina Neandertals (2012) (27)
A dental topographic analysis of chimpanzees. (2012) (25)
Dental microwear and Pliocene paleocommunity ecology of bovids, primates, rodents, and suids at Kanapoi. (2017) (25)
Sources of tooth wear variation early in life among known‐aged wild ring‐tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar (2014) (25)
Gladysvale: fossils, strata and GIS analysis (2003) (25)
Dental microwear as a behavioral proxy for distinguishing between canids at the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) site of Předmostí, Czech Republic (2020) (24)
Anterior dental microwear textures show habitat-driven variability in Neandertal behavior. (2017) (22)
Microwear textures of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus molars in relation to paleoenvironment and diet. (2018) (22)
Dental microwear and paleoecology (2013) (21)
Dental microwear differences between eastern and southern African fossil bovids and hominins (2016) (20)
Dental microwear (2018) (19)
Premolar microwear and tooth use in Australopithecus afarensis. (2013) (19)
Dental Allometry in Mammals: A Retrospective (2014) (18)
Trend-analysis of dental hard-tissue conditions as function of tooth age. (2018) (17)
Materials science: Strong teeth, strong seeds (2008) (17)
The dental microwear of hard-object feeding in laboratory Sapajus apella and its implications for dental microwear formation. (2020) (17)
Brief communication: Dental microwear and diet of Homo naledi. (2018) (16)
Evidence of strong stabilizing effects on the evolution of boreoeutherian (Mammalia) dental proportions (2019) (15)
Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology: Primate dental topographic analysis and functional morphology (2008) (15)
Mechanical food properties and dental topography differentiate three populations of Lemur catta in southwest Madagascar. (2016) (15)
A molar microwear texture analysis of pitheciid primates (2017) (14)
Incorporating intraspecific variation into dental microwear texture analysis (2019) (14)
A Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Early Pliocene African Ursid Agriotherium africanum (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae) (2018) (14)
Reproductive fitness and tooth wear: milking as much as possible out of dental topographic analysis. (2005) (13)
Reanalysis of the Lukeino molar (KNM-LU 335). (1994) (13)
Congruence of Tail Use Behaviors between Male and Female Mantled Howling Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) (2001) (13)
Primate dental ecology: How teeth respond to the environment. (2012) (12)
Exposing the past: surface topography and texture of paleontological and archeological remains (2016) (11)
Canine and incisor microwear in pitheciids and Ateles reflects documented patterns of tooth use. (2016) (11)
Comment on van Casteren et al. (2018): softer metallic spheres do abrade harder enamel (2018) (10)
The phylogenetic signal in tooth wear: What does it mean? (2018) (10)
Dental microwear profilometry of African non-cercopithecoid catarrhines of the Early Miocene. (2015) (9)
Dental topographic analysis of the molar teeth of primates. (2012) (9)
Tooth Form and Function in Biological Anthropology (2010) (9)
Inference of Diets of Early Hominins from Primate Molar Form and Microwear (2019) (9)
Teeth: A Very Short Introduction (2014) (8)
Toddlers in Transition: Linear Enamel Hypoplasias in the Hadza of Tanzania (2017) (8)
Molar Microwear, Diet and Adaptation in a Purported Hominin Species Lineage from the Pliocene of East Africa (2013) (8)
Dental Topography and Microwear Texture in Sapajus Apella (2018) (8)
Technical note: Comparing dental topography software using platyrrhine molars. (2019) (8)
The Dietary Split Between Apes and the Earliest Human Ancestors (2001) (8)
Diet reduces the effect of exogenous grit on tooth microwear (2020) (7)
Environmental perturbations can be detected through microwear texture analysis in two platyrrhine species from Brazilian Amazonia (2015) (6)
Evolution of human teeth and jaws: Implications for dentistry and orthodontics (2012) (6)
Dental microwear of living Hadza foragers. (2019) (6)
Grit your teeth and chew your food: Implications of food material properties and abrasives for rates of dental microwear formation in laboratory Sapajus apella (Primates). (2021) (5)
Dental adaptations of African apes (2015) (5)
The Functional Morphology of Jaws and Teeth: Implications for Understanding Early Hominin Dietary Adaptations (2013) (5)
Assessing molar wear in narrow-headed voles as a proxy for diet and habitat in a changing Arctic (2020) (4)
Tetrapod Teeth: Diversity, Evolution, and Function (2019) (4)
Problems with Paranthropus (2022) (4)
Monitoring of Simulated Occlusal Tooth Wear by Objective Outcome Measures. (2020) (3)
Multiproxy paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Early Pleistocene sites from the Olteţ River Valley of Romania (2021) (3)
Dental biotribology: Wearing away the boundary between biology and engineering (2017) (3)
Of dogs, wolves, and debate: A reply to Janssens et al. (2021) (2021) (3)
Early Hominin Paleoecology (2013) (3)
Environments of early Miocene Rusinga Island and Songhor: evidence from the dental microwear of tragulids (2012) (3)
Dental biotrobiology: Final thoughts and future directions (2017) (2)
Phillip Vallentine Tobias: October 14, 1925–June 7, 2012 (2012) (2)
Incisor microwear of Arctic rodents as a proxy for microhabitat preference (2021) (2)
Dental development and microstructure of bamboo rat incisors (2015) (2)
Objective assessment of simulated non-carious cervical lesion by tridimensional digital scanning (2021) (2)
9 Hominin Diets (2012) (2)
The Real Paleo Diet. (2018) (2)
Dental microwear texture analysis of megaladapids and archaeolemurids. (2007) (1)
African Genesis: Academic genealogy (2012) (1)
Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus (2021) (1)
Stable carbon isotope and molar microwear variability of South African australopiths in relation to paleohabitats and taxonomy (2020) (1)
Osteodental biology of the People of Portus Romae (Necropolis of Isola Sacra, 2nd–3rd cent. AD) (2000) (1)
Three-Dimensional Surface Texture Characterization of In Situ Simulated Erosive Tooth Wear (2021) (1)
Dental Microwear Texture analysis of Tow Genera of Subfossil Lemurs from Madagascar (2009) (1)
The relationship between dental topography and dental microwear in Sapajus apella (2016) (1)
Changing perspectives on early hominin diets. (2023) (1)
Tooth Age Impact on Dental Erosion Susceptibility and Treatment Efficacy (2021) (0)
Effects of technology on Upper Paleolithic human diet (2017) (0)
Relationships between Dental Topography, Gross Wear, and Bang and Ramm/Liversidge and Molleson Age Estimates for a Sample of Human Premolar Teeth (2023) (0)
Chapter 1. How Teeth Work (2017) (0)
Tobias, Phillip V. (2020) (0)
Chapter 6. What Made Us Human (2017) (0)
Linear enamel hypoplasia incidence in bush-dwelling and village Hadza from Tanzania (2017) (0)
Dental microwear textures of an expanded sample of Australopithecus africanus from Sterkfontein Member 4 (2017) (0)
2. Types and parts of teeth (2014) (0)
A Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Early Pliocene African Ursid Agriotherium africanum (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae) (2018) (0)
Supplementary material from "Enamel crystallite strength and wear: nanoscale responses of teeth to chewing loads" (2017) (0)
6. Mammalian teeth today (2014) (0)
A Palaeoanthropological Survey of Pleistocene Deposits near Dana and Qurayqira, Jordan (1997) (0)
From Earlier to Later Hominins (2015) (0)
Hominin dental evolution (2018) (0)
Chapter 4. Our Changing World (2017) (0)
Dental microwear turnover rates in a modern hunter-gatherer population (2016) (0)
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (1944–2022) (2022) (0)
Teeth. Second Edition. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology.By Simon Hillson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $120.00 (hardcover); $49.99 (paper). xiv + 373 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–521–83701–4 (hc); 0–521–54549–8 (pb). 2005. (2006) (0)
7. Human teeth and their history (2014) (0)
Edible Insects and Human Evolution. Julie Lesnik. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018, 206 pp. $79.95, cloth. ISBN 9780813056999. (2019) (0)
Does dental functional morphology in platyrrhine primates reflect food type or proportion (2018) (0)
Book Review:Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes Frans de Waal (1999) (0)
Analsyis of incisor microwear in five genera of platyrrhine primates (2015) (0)
Comparison between Australopithecus afarensis and Pan troglodytes honing facet microwear (2013) (0)
8 Dental Adaptations of (2006) (0)
A versatile semiautomated image analysis workflow for time-lapsed camera trap image classification (2022) (0)
Oral health among the Hadza foragers of Tanzania (2017) (0)
Alan Cyril Walker. 23 August 1938—20 November 2017 (2019) (0)
5. The evolution of teeth in mammals (2014) (0)
Chapter 2. How Teeth Are Used (2017) (0)
Shrew and rodent incisor microwear textures as a proxy for paleoenviornmental reconstruction (2014) (0)
Objective characterization of dental occlusal and fissure morphologies: Method development and exploratory analysis. (2023) (0)
Chapter 8. Victims of Our Own Success (2017) (0)
Dental indicators of Paranthropus tooth function (2018) (0)
[Book Review: Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa] (2003) (0)
The Teeth of Mammalian Vertebrates. By Barry Berkovitz and Peter Shellis. Academic Press. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and New York: Elsevier. $106.25. xii + 334 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-12-802818-6. 2018. (2019) (0)
Quantification of dental microwear using scanning electron microscopy: Intraobserver error, interobserver error, and comparison of different techniques (2001) (0)
Correction to: ‘Comment on van Casteren et al. (2018): softer metallic spheres do abrade harder enamel’ (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Neglected Ape. Ronald D. Nadler, Birute F. M. Galdikas, Lori K. Sheeran, Norm Rosen (1997) (0)
Clinically relevant 3D characterization of simulated non-carious cervical dental lesions and the effects of toothbrush and toothpaste types on wear (2020) (0)
Chapter 7. The Neolithic Revolution (2017) (0)
Supplementary material from "Comment on van Casteren et al . (2018): softer metallic spheres do abrade harder enamel" (2018) (0)
Chapter 3. Out of the Garden (2017) (0)
Chapter 5. Foodprints (2017) (0)
Supplementary material from "Alan Cyril Walker. 23 August 1938 — 20 November 2017" (2019) (0)
Supplementary material from "Incorporating intraspecific variation into dental microwear texture analysis" (2019) (0)
Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa.Edited byMeave G Leakey and John M Harris.New York: Columbia University Press. $195.00. vii + 678 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐231‐11870‐8. 2003. (2003) (0)
8 Dental Adaptations of African Apes (2006) (0)
3. What teeth do: food and feeding (2014) (0)
Incisor microwear and gouging in callitrichines (2013) (0)
4. Teeth before the mammals (2014) (0)
Revealing palaeoecology through geochemistry and microwear (2011) (0)
8. Endless forms (2014) (0)
Origins and Functions of Teeth (2015) (0)
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Kanapoi through use of rodent dental microwear (2017) (0)
D tooth microwear texture analysis in fishes as a test of dietary hypotheses of durophagy (2015) (0)
1. Teeth matter (2014) (0)

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