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    • Finite element analysis of the cranium: validity, sensitivity and future directions 
      Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Toro Ibacache, María Viviana; Fitton, Laura C.; O'Higgins, Paul (Elsevier, 2017)
      Finite element analysis (FEA) is increasingly applied in skeletal biomechanical research ingeneral, and in fossil studies in particular. Underlying such studies is the principle that FEA provides results that approximate ...
    • The biting performance of Homo sapiens and Homo heidelbergensis 
      Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Fitton, Laura C.; Toro Ibacache, Viviana; Stringer, Chris B.; Lacruz, Rodrigo S.; Bromage, Timothy G.; O'Higgins, Paul (Elsevier, 2018)
      Modern humans have smaller faces relative to Middle and Late Pleistocene members of the genus Homo. While facial reduction and differences in shape have been shown to increase biting efficiency in Homo sapiens relative to ...