Interdisciplinary research has benefitted the fields of anthropology and engineering for
decades: a classic example being the application of material science to the field of feeding …

Finite element analysis (FEA) is no longer a new technique in the fields of palaeontology,
anthropology, and evolutionary biology. It is nowadays a well-established technique within …

Abstract Though late Middle Pleistocene in age, Homo naledi is characterized by a mosaic
of Australopithecus-like (eg, curved fingers, small brains) and Homo-like (eg, elongated …

Cranial sutures are fibrocellular joints between the skull bones that are progressively
replaced with bone throughout ontogeny, facilitating growth and cranial shape change. This …

Dental topography reflects diet accurately in several extant and extinct mammalian clades.
However, dental topographic dietary reconstructions have high success rates only when …

A fundamental axiom that underlies evolutionary biomechanics maintains that natural
selection has adapted skeletal and dental morphologies to facilitate function in intelligible …

An on-going debate concerning the dietary adaptations of archaic hominins and early Homo
has been fuelled by contradictory inferences obtained using different methodologies. This …

Finite element analysis (FEA) is a commonly used tool in musculoskeletal biomechanics and
vertebrate paleontology. The accuracy and precision of finite element models (FEMs) are …

Strain parameters at injury prone sites of the equine third metacarpal (MC3) and proximal
phalangeal (P1) bones were investigated with the aim of improving understanding of injury …

Objectives Morphological variation in cranial sutures is used to infer aspects of primate
feeding behavior, including diet, but strain regimes across sutures are not well documented …