Tanya M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She has held a professorship at Harvard University, and fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
The Tales Teeth Tell is an accessible, personal, often funny and occasionally controversial look into the murk of human evolution...[the book] is chock full of fascinating science, but it's also the personal story of a woman of science immersed in her work. -Shelf Awareness In a time when people are more interested than ever in where they came from, The Tales Teeth Tell gives readers a way to look beyond a DNA cheek swab for information about their pasts, both recent and deep....By the end of her tooth-centric tour through childhood, the distant past, and modern cultures, Smith will have convinced you that your teeth are time machines. -Massive Science The Tales Teeth Tell might make you more impressed by what's in your mouth - or put a smile on your face with its weird facts about primate dentistry and the shrinking grins of modern-day humans. The book is written by an academic and has plenty of notes. But it's accessible to science-minded readers. -Washington Post