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Human feeding biomechanics: performance, variation, and functional constraints

2016-06-08

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The evolution of the modern human ( Homo sapiens ) cranium is characterized by a reduction in the size of the feeding system, including reductions in the size of the facial skeleton, postcanine teeth, and the muscles involved in biting and chewing. The conventional view hypothesizes that gracilization of the human feeding system is related to a shift toward eating foods that were less mechanically challenging to...

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Literature Corpus work: d0491d67-8bb6-508e-b416-6d61555e91eb
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2113v1

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