Virtual Functional Morphology: Novel Approaches to the Study of Craniofacial Form and Function

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 521-535

  O'Higgins, Paul ^a   Fitton, Laura C ^a   Phillips, Roger ^b   Shi, JunFen ^b   Liu, Jia ^b   Gröning, Flora ^a   Cobb, Samuel N ^b   Fagan, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Finite element analysis; Geometric morphometrics; Multibody dynamics analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870789929     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-012-9173-8     Document Type: Review

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