Biomechanical Implications of Intraspecific Shape Variation in Chimpanzee Crania: Moving Toward an Integration of Geometric Morphometrics and Finite Element Analysis

Anatomical Record

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 122-144

  Smith, Amanda L ^a   Benazzi, Stefano ^b,c   Ledogar, Justin A ^a   Tamvada, Kelli ^a   Pryor Smith, Leslie C ^d   Weber, Gerhard W ^e   Spencer, Mark A ^f,g   Dechow, Paul C ^d   Grosse, Ian R ^h   Ross, Callum F ⁱ   Richmond, Brian G ^j,k   Wright, Barth W ^l   Wang, Qian ^m   Byron, Craig ⁿ   Slice, Dennis E ^e,o   Strait, David S ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g South Mountain Community College   (United States)

^h University of Massachusetts   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^j DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^k THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^m MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁿ MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Force; Pan troglodytes; Shape; Strain; Stress

Indexed keywords

CRANIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MATHEMATICS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BITE FORCE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84919754596     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23074     Document Type: Article

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