Understanding Skull Function from a Mechanobiological Perspective

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 501-515

  Daegling, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connection between masticatory function and skull form; Facial bone strain in baboons and macaques test of masticatory stress hypothesis; Functional demands on skull form; Natural selection, an instrumental evolutionary force in primate and human evolution; Obligate bipedality, defining feature of the human lineage; Primate skull diversity, systematic differences in number of bones comprising primate skull; Supraorbital morphology; Understanding skull function from a mechanobiological perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873288100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320039.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

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