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Zuccotti, L.F.; Williamson, M.D.; Limp, F.W.; Ungar, P.S.  Modeling primate occlusal topography using Geographic Information Systems Technology.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 107:137-142, 1998.

Ungar, P.S.; Williamson, M.E.  Exploring the effects of tooth wear on function:  a preliminary study of dental topography in Gorilla gorilla.
PALEONTOLOGICA ELECTRONICA, 3 (1): 18pp., 2000.

M'Kirera, F.; Ungar, P.S.  Occlusal relief changes with molar wear in Pan troglodytes troglodytes and Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, 60, 31-42, 2003.

Ungar, P.; Kirera, F.  A solution to the worn tooth conundrum in primate functional anatomy.  
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, USA,
100, 3874-3877, 2003.

Ungar, P.S.; Brown, C.A.; Bergstrom, T.S.; Walker, A.C. Quantification of dental microwear by tandem scanning confocal microscopy and scale-sensitive fractal analyses.  
SCANNING, 25, 185-193, 2003.

Ungar, P.S.  Dental topography and diets of Australopithecus afarensis and early Homo.
JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, 46: 605-622, 2004.

Dennis, J.C.; Ungar, P.S.; Teaford, M.F.; Glander, K.E. Dental topography and molar wear in Alouatta palliata from Costa Rica.  
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 125: 152-161, 2004.

Schubert, B.W.; Ungar, P.S.  Reflecting on their bite:  wear facets and occlusal relationships in tyrannosaurids
ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLANICA, 50: 93-99, 2005.

Scott, R.S.; Ungar, P.S.; Bergstrom, T.S.; Brown, C.A.; Grine, F.E.; Teaford, M.F.; Walker, A.  Dental microwear texture analysis reflects diets of living primates and fossil hominins.  
NATURE, 436: 693-695, 2005.

Merceron, G.; Ungar, P.S.  Dental microwear and palaeoecology of bovids from the early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa.
SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, in press.

Teaford, M.F.; Ungar, P.S.  Dental adaptations of African apes.  To be published in HANDBOOK OF PALEOANTHROPOLOGY, VOLUME 1: PRINCIPLES, METHODS, AND APPROACHES .  Henke, W., Rothe, H. and Tattersall, I. eds. Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, in press.

Ungar, P.S.  Dental functional morphology:  The known, the unknown, and the unknowable.  
To be published in  THE EVOLUTION OF HOMININ DIETS: THE KNOWN, THE UNKNOWN, AND THE UNKNOWABLE. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press.

Ungar, P.S.  Dental topography and human evolution:  With comments on the diets of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus.  
To be published in DENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN EVOLUTION:  STATE OF THE ART RESEARCH IN DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY.  Bailey, S. and Hublin, J.J. eds. Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag.

Schubert, B.W.; Ungar, P.S.; Sponheimer, M.; Reed, K.E.  Microwear evidence for bovid diets and Plio-Pleistocene environments at Makapansgat Limeworks Cave, South Africa.
 To be submitted to PALAEO.

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