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    • 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 ...
    • The Effect of Varying Jaw-elevator Muscle Forces on a Finite Element Model of a Human Cranium 
      Toro Ibacache, Viviana; O'Higgins, Paul (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      Finite element analyses simulating masticatory system loading are increasingly undertaken in primates, hominin fossils and modern humans. Simplifications of models and loadcases are often required given the limits of data ...