The most important demand of today's high-performance materials is to unite high strength
with extreme fracture toughness. The combination of withstanding large forces (strength) …

Diets estimated from different proxies such as stable isotopes, stomach contents, and dental
microwear often disagree, leading to nominally well‐supported but greatly differing …

Both dust and silica phytoliths have been shown to contribute to reducing tooth volume
during chewing. However, the way and the extent to which they individually contribute to …

The evolution of high-crowned cheek teeth (hypsodonty) in herbivorous mammals during the
late Cenozoic is classically regarded as an adaptive response to the near-global spread of …

Solid biosilica (phytoliths) deposited in plant tissues is thought to function as structural
support, as a cost‐effective alternative to lignin, and in herbivore defence, by limiting nutrient …

Dental microwear and 3D surface texture analyses are useful in reconstructing herbivore
diets, with scratches usually interpreted as indicators of grass dominated diets and pits as …

Identification of the selective forces that shaped adaptive phenotypes generally relies on
current habitat and function, but these may differ from the context in which adaptations …

The threat of wear to dental enamel from hard particles of silica or silicates may have
exerted great selective pressure on mammals. Increasing the hardness of enamel helps to …

Although patterns of tooth wear are crucial in palaeo‐reconstructions, and dental wear
abnormalities are important in veterinary medicine, experimental investigations on the …

The relative weights of physical forcing and biotic interaction as drivers of evolutionary
change have been debated in evolutionary theory. The recent finding that species, genera …