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  • Title: Polynesian face and dentition: functional perspective.
    Author: Kean MR, Houghton P.
    Journal: Am J Phys Anthropol; 1990 Jul; 82(3):361-9. PubMed ID: 2375384.
    Abstract:
    Widely dispersed throughout the Pacific, Polynesians are a biologically distinctive people in form and size of both body and head. Large-bodied and well-muscled, their body phenotype is suited to life in a thermolabile oceanic environment. Their craniofacial skeleton is large and robust, with mandibular size and form (the "rocker" mandible) being especially characteristic. In this paper the Polynesian variants of body form, and of facial size (including dentition) and form, are interpreted from a functional perspective.
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