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In dentistry, a veneer is a thin shell, usually of porcelain or composite, bonded to the front of a tooth to improve its colour, shape, or alignment while removing little tooth structure. Peumans and colleagues' 2000 Porcelain veneers: a review of the literature summarises their indications, technique, and clinical longevity. The referent is a thin restorative facing bonded to enamel, sharing the word and the idea of a thin surface layer with wood veneer and with the figurative 'veneer' of appearance.[1]
In moral philosophy and evolutionary biology, 'veneer theory' is the idea that human morality is only a thin cultural layer laid over a fundamentally selfish animal nature. De Waal's Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved names and argues against this view, contending that the roots of morality are themselves part of our evolved social nature. The referent is a figurative thin surface over something baser (the metaphor drawn straight from the woodworker's and dentist's thin facing), a concept in ethics rather than a physical material.[2]
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