Dr. Mark F. Teaford

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

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






  • Education:


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

  • Research Focuses:
  • mammalian functional morphology
    primate dentitions
    tooth wear and diet
    scanning electron microscopy
    fossil hominoids and hominins

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  • Link to Fieldwork
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  • Recent/Noteworthy Publications:
  • 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. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit 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. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit 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 DOWNLOAD PDF (visit 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. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Nature page)

    El-Zaatari, S., Grine, F.E., Teaford, M.F., and Smith, H.F. (2005). Molar microwear and dietary reconstructions of fossil Cercopithecoidea from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of South Africa. J. Hum. Evol. 49: 180-205. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Elsevier 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. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Wiley AJPA page)

    Ungar, P.S., Teaford, M.F. and Kay, R.F. (2004) Molar microwear and shearing crest development in Miocene catarrhines. Anthropologie 42(1): 21-35.

    Leakey, M.G., Teaford, M.F., and Ward, C.W. (2003) Cercopithecidae from Lothagam. In Lothagam: Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa. M.G. Leakey and J.M. Harris, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 201-248.

    Raphael, K., Marbach, J., and Teaford, M.F. (2003). Is bruxism severity a predictor of oral splint efficacy in patients with myofascial face pain? J. Oral. Rehabil. 30: 17-29.

    Rafferty, K., Teaford, M.F. and Jungers, W.L. (2002) Molar microwear of subfossil lemurs: improving the resolution of dietary inferences. J. Hum. Evol. 43: 645-57. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Elsevier JHE page)

  • Current Students:
  • Tonya Penkrot

               
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