Viewpoints: Diet and dietary adaptations in early hominins: The hard food perspective

Northeast African vegetation change over 12 m.y.

(2013) S. J. Feakins et al.   GEOLOGY

Mechanisms and causes of wear in tooth enamel: implications for hominin diets

(2013) P. W. Lucas et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets

(2012) Robert S. Scott et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Tooth Chipping as a Tool to Reconstruct Diets of Great Apes (Pongo, Gorilla, Pan)

(2012) Paul J. Constantino et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Reconstructing the Diet of an Extinct Hominin Taxon: The Role of Extant Primate Models

(2012) Bernard Wood et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Innovative Approaches to the Relationship Between Diet and Mandibular Morphology in Primates

(2012) Callum F. Ross et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Toward integration of geometric morphometrics and computational biomechanics: New methods for 3D virtual reconstruction and quantitative analysis of Finite Element Models

(2012) W.C.H. Parr et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Fracture in teeth-a diagnostic for inferring bite force and tooth function

(2011) James J.-W. Lee et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Using occlusal wear information and finite element analysis to investigate stress distributions in human molars

(2011) Stefano Benazzi et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Virtual anthropology meets biomechanics

(2011) Gerhard W. Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Microwear, mechanics and the feeding adaptations of Australopithecus africanus

(2011) David S. Strait et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The evolutionary context of the first hominins

(2011) Bernard Wood et al.   NATURE

Hard-Object Feeding in Sooty Mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and Interpretation of Early Hominin Feeding Ecology

(2011) David J. Daegling et al.   PLoS One

CT-based study of internal structure of the anterior pillar in extinct hominins and its implications for the phylogeny of robust Australopithecus

(2011) B. A. Villmoare et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa

(2011) T. E. Cerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Diets of Early Hominins

(2011) P. S. Ungar et al.   SCIENCE

The Foot and Ankle of Australopithecus sediba

(2011) B. Zipfel et al.   SCIENCE

Dietary Change and Evolution of Horses in North America

(2011) M. C. Mihlbachler et al.   SCIENCE

A finite element analysis of masticatory stress hypotheses

(2010) Janine Chalk et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

The Structural Rigidity of the Cranium of Australopithecus africanus: Implications for Diet, Dietary Adaptations, and the Allometry of Feeding Biomechanics

(2010) David S. Strait et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Edentulation Alters Material Properties of Cortical Bone in the Human Craniofacial Skeleton: Functional Implications for Craniofacial Structure in Primate Evolution

(2010) Paul C. Dechow et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

The Effect of Early Hominin Occlusal Morphology on the Fracturing of Hard Food Items

(2010) Michael Berthaume et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Teeth: Among Nature's Most Durable Biocomposites

(2010) Brian R. Lawn et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Tooth chipping can reveal the diet and bite forces of fossil hominins

(2010) P. J. Constantino et al.   Biology Letters

Biomechanics of the macaque postorbital septum investigated using finite element analysis: implications for anthropoid evolution

(2010) Mika Nakashige et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

In vivo bone strain and finite-element modeling of the craniofacial haft in catarrhine primates

(2010) Callum F. Ross et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Combining geometric morphometrics and functional simulation: an emerging toolkit for virtual functional analyses

(2010) Paul O’Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Craniofacial biomechanics and functional and dietary inferences in hominin paleontology

(2010) Frederick E. Grine et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Molar microwear textures and the diets of Australopithecus anamensis and Australopithecus afarensis

(2010) P. S. Ungar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stable isotopes in fossil hominin tooth enamel suggest a fundamental dietary shift in the Pliocene

(2010) J. A. Lee-Thorp et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Apes Among the Tangled Branches of Human Origins

(2010) T. Harrison   SCIENCE

Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa

(2010) L. R. Berger et al.   SCIENCE

Analysis of fracture and deformation modes in teeth subjected to occlusal loading

(2009) Brian R. Lawn et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

The importance of fallback foods in primate ecology and evolution

(2009) Paul J. Constantino et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Indentation as a technique to assess the mechanical properties of fallback foods

(2009) Peter W. Lucas et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Fallback foraging as a way of life: Using dietary toughness to compare the fallback signal among capuchins and implications for interpreting morphological variation

(2009) Barth W. Wright et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Finite element analysis (FEA): Applying an engineering method to functional morphology in anthropology and human biology

(2009) O. Panagiotopoulou   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Morphology and fracture of enamel

(2009) Sangwon Myoung et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Fracture Modes in Human Teeth

(2009) J.J.-.W. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH

Dental microwear texture analysis of two families of subfossil lemurs from Madagascar

(2009) J.R. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Jaw-muscle fiber architecture in tufted capuchins favors generating relatively large muscle forces without compromising jaw gape

(2009) Andrea B. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Fracture of tooth enamel from incipient microstructural defects

(2009) Herzl Chai et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

The jaw lever system in ungulates: a new model

(2009) W. S. Greaves   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The foot of Homo floresiensis

(2009) W. L. Jungers et al.   NATURE

The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Australopithecus africanus

(2009) D. S. Strait et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Remarkable resilience of teeth

(2009) H. Chai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Combining Prehension and Propulsion: The Foot of Ardipithecus ramidus

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy et al.   SCIENCE

Reexamining Human Origins in Light of Ardipithecus ramidus

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy   SCIENCE

The Great Divides: Ardipithecus ramidus Reveals the Postcrania of Our Last Common Ancestors with African Apes

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy et al.   SCIENCE

Dental enamel as a dietary indicator in mammals

(2008) Peter Lucas et al.   BIOESSAYS

Three-dimensional molar enamel distribution and thickness in Australopithecus and Paranthropus

(2008) A.J Olejniczak et al.   Biology Letters

Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early Hominins

(2008) Nathaniel J. Dominy et al.   Evolutionary Biology

It’s Tough Out There: Variation in the Toughness of Ingested Leaves and Feeding Behavior Among Four Colobinae in Vietnam

(2008) B. W. Wright et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Linking Laboratory and Field Approaches in Studying the Evolutionary Physiology of Biting in Bamboo Lemurs

(2008) Christopher J. Vinyard et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei

(2008) Peter S. Ungar et al.   PLoS One