Scott E C
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1979 Feb;50(2):251-8. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.1330500214.
Teeth increase in size during a 9,000-year period in an archaeologically derived, radiocarbon dated sample of skeletons from a geographically restricted area of coastal Peru. Although cultural change is extensive, including the transition to food production and pottery making, teeth do not reduce as predicted under these conditions by Brace's Probable Mutation Effect. Since most of the dental literature dealing with size change of teeth focuses upon dental reduction, hypotheses explaining why teeth increase through time are not well developed. No obvious selective forces explaining size increase are apparent in the present data. Attrition decreases through time. The increase in tooth size in this collection may be a function of overall cranialfacial size increase, which (pending further data) may be related to a general body size increase.
在一个来自秘鲁沿海地理受限区域、经考古发掘且已通过放射性碳测定年代的骨骼样本中，牙齿在9000年的时间里增大了。尽管文化变迁广泛，包括向食物生产和制陶的转变，但根据布雷斯的“可能突变效应”，在这些情况下牙齿并未如预期那样变小。由于大多数关于牙齿大小变化的牙科文献都集中在牙齿缩小方面，所以解释牙齿为何随时间增大的假说并未得到充分发展。目前的数据中没有明显的解释牙齿增大的选择力。磨耗随时间减少。这个样本中牙齿大小的增加可能是颅面整体大小增加的一个函数，而颅面整体大小增加（有待进一步数据）可能与身体总体大小增加有关。
