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 …

Feeding is the set of behaviors whereby organisms acquire and process the energy required
for survival and reproduction. Thus, feeding system morphology is presumably subject to …

An important goal of primatology is to identify the ecological factors that affect primate
abundance, diversity, demography, and social behavior. Understanding the nutritional …

Madagascar's lemurs display a diverse array of feeding strategies with complex
relationships to seed dispersal mechanisms in Malagasy plants. Although these …

Body size and food properties account for much of the variation in the hard tissue
morphology of the masticatory system whereas their influence on the soft tissue anatomy …

Bite force and gape are two important performance metrics of the feeding system, and these
metrics are inversely related for a given muscle size because of fundamental constraints in …

Madagascar lost a large number of large-bodied animal species during the Holocene. Many
of them played important roles as seed dispersers. In the case of the largest-seeded …

The biomechanical and adaptive significance of variation in craniodental and mandibular
morphology in fossil hominins is not always clear, at least in part because of a poor …

It has been previously proposed that distal humerus morphology may reflect the locomotor
pattern and substrate preferred by different primates. However, relationships between these …

Analyses of masticatory muscle architecture—specifically fascicle length (FL; a correlate of
muscle stretch and contraction speed) and physiological cross‐sectional area (PCSA; a …