Mechanical evidence that Australopithecus sediba was limited in its ability to eat hard foods
- Submitting institution
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London South Bank University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 278560
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/ncomms10596
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 10596
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10596.pdf
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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20
- Research group(s)
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A - The BioEngineering Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper presented a masticatory biomechanical analysis of a hominin taxon which was a contender for the ancestor of the genus Homo. I analysed the sensitivity of craniofacial models to mechanical properties assumptions, crucial to interpretating model results and leading to an independent publication. This study received high international recognition (Altmetric score of 398, 46 news outlets), fuelled the international debate on the relationship between cranial form and diet, and had its methodologies incorporated into TransmittingScience’s FEA of biological systems course. This paper presented now widely used new methods in “aging” juvenile individuals and model construction/analysis (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0085, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23492, https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13218)
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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