“…These standards are widely used today and were selectively incorporated into the Standards manual (Buikstra & Ubelaker, ), thus assuring that many tens of thousands of individuals have been observed for dental morphological variation (see also Scott & Irish, ; Scott, Turner, Townsend, & Martinón‐Torres, 2018). Continued interest in dental morphology is evidenced by the recent publication of multiple synthetic volumes (Edgar, ; Scott & Irish, ; Scott et al, a) and multiscalar applications in bioarchaeological contexts (e.g., McIlvaine, Schepartz, Larsen, & Sciulli, ; Reyes‐Centeno, Rathmann, Hanihara, & Harvati, ; Scott et al, b; Thompson, Hedman, & Slater, ). However, if phenotypic datasets are ever to approach genetic datasets in their quality and resolution, continued validation research on the biological underpinnings of crown variation is necessary to inform analytical assumptions and methods.…”