Dear Rene,
I don't know much about dogs (and I was in this respect interested and not
surprised by Susan Crockford' message), but since you are extending your
question to other domestic animals, I would like to advice you against using
tooth size as a proxy for body size. The relationship between the two is too
loose to be of any real use. If you are interested, I can provide you with
various archaeological examples that show that an increase or decrease in
postcranial bone size is not reflected by an equivalent change in tooth size -
in fact I even know cases in which the change occurs in the exactly opposite
direction (e.g. bones become larger and teeth smaller).
Cheers,
Umberto
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Umberto Albarella
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