E-Mail: MTEAFORD(at)jhmi.edu
Phone: 410-955-7034

1830 E. Monument St., Room 303
Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois, 1981
M.A., Anthropology, University of Illinois, 1977
B.A., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1973

mammalian functional morphology
primate dentitions
tooth wear and diet
scanning electron microscopy
fossil hominoids and hominins

Curriculum Vitae

Teaford, M.F., Ungar, P.S., and Kay, R.F. (2008) Molar shape and molar microwear in the Koobi Fora monkeys: ecomorphological implications. In Koobi Fora Research Project. Volume 6. The Fossil Monkeys, N.G. Jablonski and M.G. Leakey, eds. San Francisco: Occasional Paper of the California Academy of Sciences, pp. 337-358.

Williams, S.H., Vinyard, C.J., Glander, K.E., Deffenbaugh, M., Teaford, M.F., and Thompson, C.L. (2008) Telemetry system for assessing jaw-muscle function in free-ranging primates. Int. J. Primatol. 29: 1441-1453.

Scott, J., Ungar, P., Jungers, W., Godfrey, L., Scott, R., Simons, E., Teaford, M., Walker, A. (2009) Dental microwear texture analysis of two genera of subfossil lemurs from Madagascar. J. Hum. Evol. 56: 405-416.

Ungar, P.S., Grine, F.E., and Teaford, M.F. (2008) Dental microwear and diet of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei. PLoS One 3(4): e2044. (view from PLoS ONE page)

Braly, A., Darnell, L.A., Mann, A.B., Teaford, M.F., and Weihs, T.P. (2007). The effect of prism orientation on the indentation testing of human molar enamel. Arch. Oral Biol. 52: 856-860.

Teaford, M.F. and Ungar, P.S. (2007) Dental adaptations of African apes. In: W. Henke and I. Tattersall (eds). Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Vol. 2. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 1107-1132.

Teaford, M.F. (2007). What do we know and not know about diet and enamel structure? In: P.S. Ungar (ed). Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 56-76.

Grine, F.E., Ungar, P.S., Teaford, M.F., and El-Zaatari, S. (2006) Molar microwear in Praeanthropus afarensis: evidence for dietary stasis through time and under diverse paleoecological conditions. J. Hum. Evol. 51:297-319. (view from Elsevier page)

Teaford, M.F., Lucas, P.W., Ungar, P.S. and Glander, K.E. (2006) Mechanical defenses in leaves eaten by Costa Rican Alouatta palliata. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 129: 99-104. (view from Wiley AJPA page)

Ungar, P.S., Grine, F.E., and Teaford, M.F. (2006) Diet in early Homo: A review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility. Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 35: 209-228. (view from Annual Reviews page)

Scott, R.S., Ungar, P.S., Bergstrom, T.S., Brown, C.A., Grine, F.E., Teaford, M.F., and Walker, A. (2005). Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins. Nature 436: 693-695. (view from Nature page)

Dennis, J.C., Ungar, P.S., Teaford, M.F., and Glander, K.E. (2004) Dental topography and molar wear in Alouatta palliata from Costa Rica. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 125(2): 152-161. (view from Wiley AJPA page)

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