Tongue contractions during speech may have led to the development of the bony geometry of the chin following the evolution of human language: A mechanobiological hypothesis for the development of the human chin

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-24

  Ichim, Ionut ^a   Kieser, Jules ^a   Swain, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIN; EVOLUTION; FACE MUSCLE; FORCE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; STRESS; TONGUE; TOOTH ARCH;

CHIN; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SPEECH; TONGUE;

EID: 34247585033     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.11.048     Document Type: Article

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