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Ian Towle

@iantowle.bsky.social
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Researcher in primate evolution, with a focus on teeth

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Dental Anthropology Association @dentalanth.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
We can't wait to see you in Denver at the @bioanth.org conference! To help you plan, we've compiled a list of DAA-related activities. All will be great opportunities to mix and mingle with fellow tooth enthusiasts. For more information, check out our website dentalanthropology.org
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aprofico.bsky.social @aprofico.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Just published in AJBA! Toothnroll: An R Package for Landmarking, Measuring, and Mapping Dental Tissues of Hominoid Anterior Teeth dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... Co-authors: @mathilde-augoyard.bsky.social, @clement-zanolli.bsky.social & Priscilla Bayle #VirtualAnthropology #HumanEvolution #OpenSource
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Ian Towle @iantowle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Adapting Clinical Tooth Wear Assessment Methods for Biological Anthropology Contexts - our new article in AJBA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Primate Research and News @ourprimatepast.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🎥 Just launched: Our Primate Past — a new YouTube channel featuring interviews with leading experts in primatology and biological anthropology. The first 3 interviews are uploaded, with new videos to be added every few days. Subscribe to stay updated!
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Our Primate Past
Our Primate Past is a video interview series featuring leading experts in primatology, paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. Through accessible, time-stamped interviews, world-ren...
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Uniform, circular, and shallow enamel pitting in hominins: Prevalence, morphological associations, and potential taxonomic signals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Uniform, circular, and shallow enamel pitting in hominins: Prevalence, morphological associations, and potential taxonomic significance
This study explores a particular form of enamel pitting originally identified in Paranthropus robustus. We call this uniform, circular, and shallow (U…
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April M. Beisaw @aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Juvenile lower 3rd molar of a Bronze Age domestic pig looks like a mountain landscape. #zooarchaeology
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Dr. Mary T. Silcox @marytsilcox.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New paper co-led by Maddy Lang and myself, providing the most comprehensive analysis of the evolution of olfactory bulb size in living and fossil euarchontoglirans. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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But how does it smell? An investigation of olfactory bulb size among living and fossil primates and other euarchontoglirans
Analysis of cranial endocast data of 181 extant and 41 fossil species from Euarchontoglires shows that there was a reduction in olfactory bulb size in Crown Primates, but that there were also subsequ...
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
#Gibbons are another of those animals that are rarely flattered by #taxidermy (many historic specimens were made by taxidermists who had never seen a whole one). This #gibbon at the Sorbonne Zoology Museum has been given a neck-pouch that's bigger than its head.
A taxidermy gibbon with a massive inflated throat pouch.
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Ian Towle @iantowle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Great new study in AJBA by Kaita N. Gurian and colleagues showing that multiple researchers can reliably use the same microCT scans for 2D dental measurements with minimal inter-observer error. Excellent news for scan sharing in dental anthropology!
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Inter‐Observer Processing and Measurement Error Are Low for 2D Dental Measurements on Shared microCT Scans
Objectives Sharing micro-computed tomographic (μCT) scans of teeth increases data accessibility and reduces the need for repeated scans of any given specimen. However, the use of the same TIFF stack...
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John C Willman @johncwillman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Have a interesting project involving the study of human teeth? Want to present it at the EAA in Belgrade? Consider our session and message if you need more details!
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools" 🧪🏺🦣
Screen grab of paper abstract, text: "We report the discovery of diverse taxa of starch grains, extracted from basalt percussive tools found at the early Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov. These include acorns, grass grains, water chestnuts, yellow water lily rhizomes, and legume seeds. The diverse plant foods vary in ecological niches, seasonality, and gathering and processing modes. Our results further confirm the importance of plant foods in our evolutionary history and highlight the development of complex food-related behaviors."
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Primate Research and News @ourprimatepast.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Savannah E. Cobb and colleagues show how combining incisor geometry and relief offers a robust dietary proxy in anthropoid primates—outperforming geometry alone. Their findings suggest a mixed-feeding ecology for the fossil platyrrhine Antillothrix: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Incisor Geometry, Relief, and Diet in Anthropoid Primates With Implications for Antillothrix
Principal component analysis (PCA) showing variation in incisor shape across dietary groups. Diet is indicated by color, and genus is indicated by shape. (A) PCA of I1 height, width, and breadth. (B)...
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Ian Towle @iantowle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Fascinating new research by Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg et al., using enamel hypoplasia to study stress in the Cayo Santiago Rhesus macaques with known life history data. Published open-access in the American Journal of Primatology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #primates #macaques
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Revisiting Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta): How a Stress Marker Relates to Environment and Maternal Lineage in a Rare Rhesus Colony With Known Life History
Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) prevalence in the teeth of Cayo Santiago rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Defects matched on right and left teeth and the increase in the frequency of LEH by decade.
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Ian Towle @iantowle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A gibbon mandible with mixed dentition, highlighting the variation in bone and dental tissue mineral density—there’s a lot going on in this small jaw! #Primates #Teeth #Anatomy
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A new Bluesky starter pack listing biological anthropologists. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CnJLf95
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