Among non-mammalian vertebrates, rigid skulls with tight sutural junctions are associated
with high levels of cranial loading. The rigid skulls of mammals presumably act to resist the …

The development of virtual methods for anatomical reconstruction and functional simulation
of skeletal structures offers great promise in evolutionary and ontogenetic investigations of …

Changes in the technology of food preparation over the last few thousand years (especially
cooking, softening, and grinding) are hypothesized to have contributed to smaller facial size …

Bone turnover rates can be altered by metabolic and mechanical demands. Due to the
difference in the pattern of loading, we hypothesized that there are differences in bone …

The wide range of dietary niches filled by modern mammals is reflected in morphological
diversity of the feeding apparatus. Despite volumes of data on the biomechanics of feeding …

Models of mammalian mastication predict that bite force is affected by both the degree of
mouth opening (gape angle) and the point along the tooth row at which force is transferred …

The morphology and biomechanics of the vertebrate skull reflect the physical properties of
diet and behaviors used in food acquisition and processing. We use phyllostomid bats, the …

Masticatory loading is one of the main environmental stimuli that generate craniofacial
variation among recent humans. Experimental studies on a wide variety of mammals …

Attempts to establish relationships between mandibular morphology and either traditional
dietary categories or geometric and material properties of primate diets have not been …

The aim of this study was to determine regional variability of material properties in the
dentate maxilla. Cortical samples were removed from 15 sites of 15 adult dentate fresh …