Recording Structures of Mammals

Determination of Age and Reconstruction of Life History

By: Galina A. Klevezal, M.V. Mina

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Hardcover | 1 June 1995 | Edition Number 1

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This book is focused on the principals and methods of using growth layers formed in teeth and bones of mammals and to make a judgement on essential traits of the animal's life history. Nearly in all mammalian species including man, the age of individuals can be determined from the number of growth layers and, at least in some of them, it is possible to estimate the season of an animal's birth and death, the age of sexual maturation, periodicity of reproduction, certain feeding habits and other aspects of the individual's biology. It is also possible, from tooth enamel analysis, to assess dose of radiation accumulated by animals and human beings during their lifetime.
The book is intended mainly for zoologists, wild-game biologists, and zoo-archaeologists, but some of the sections can also be of interest for anthropologists, radio-ecologists and conservation biologists.

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Introduction
Acknowledgement
Main Recording Structures in Mammals	p. 1
Morphological Characteristics of Recording Structures	p. 3
Studies of Recording Structures by Means of Their Vital Labelling	p. 24
Growth Layers in the Recording Structures	p. 30
Diversity of Annual Layer Patterns	p. 81
Use of the Recording Structures in Zoological Investigations	p. 103
General Principles of Application of Recording Structures for Determining Absolute Age of Mammals	p. 105
Age Determination of Mammals From Temperate and Subpolar Zones	p. 124
Possibilities of Applying Recording Structures to Decode Records of an Individual's Life History	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 231
Guide to the Methods of Revealing Growth Layers	p. 234
Appendix: The Material Referred in the Book that was Investigated by the Author	p. 242
References	p. 245
Index	p. 271
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