Diet plays an incontrovertible role in primate evolution, affecting anatomy, growth and
development, behavior, and social structure. It should come as no surprise that a myriad of …

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 …

Recent humans and their fossil relatives are classified as having thick molar enamel, one of
very few dental traits that distinguish hominins from living African apes. However, little is …

Recent biomechanical analyses examining the feeding adaptations of early hominins have
yielded results consistent with the hypothesis that hard foods exerted a selection pressure …

Background Dental biomechanics based on finite element (FE) analysis is attracting
enormous interest in dentistry, biology, anthropology and palaeontology. Nonetheless …

When humans fight hand‐to‐hand the face is usually the primary target and the bones that
suffer the highest rates of fracture are the parts of the skull that exhibit the greatest increase …

Reconstructing diet is critical to understanding hominin adaptations. Isotopic and functional
morphological analyses of early hominins are compatible with consumption of hard foods …

Abstract Though late Middle Pleistocene in age, Homo naledi is characterized by a mosaic
of Australopithecus-like (eg, curved fingers, small brains) and Homo-like (eg, elongated …

Abstract Pitheciines (Pithecia, Chiropotes, and Cacajao) are a specialized clade of
Neotropical seed predators that exhibit postcanine teeth with low and rounded cusps and …

Homo erectus and later humans have enlarged body sizes, reduced sexual dimorphism,
elongated lower limbs, and increased encephalization compared to Australopithecus …