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Another look at an old face: biomechanics of the neandertal facial skeleton reconsidered
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The large midface, chinless jaws and enlarged brow ridges of Middle Pleistocene hominins make up a suite of features adapted to masticatory or paramasticatory uses.
“the large midface, chinless jaws and enlarged brow ridges of MP hominins make up a suite of features adapted to masticatory or paramasticatory uses 59,60,65,66”
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Adaptive explanations for an enlarged midface and large brows have focused either on enlargement of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses emphasizing respiratory/energetic demands and climatic adaptation, or on mechanical adaptations to diet, paramasticatory activity, or increase in body size.
“Adaptive explanations for an enlarged midface and large brows have focused either on enlargement of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses emphasizing respiratory/energetic demands 56 and climatic adaptation 57,58 , or on mechanical adaptations to diet, paramasticatory activity 59,60 , or increase in body size [61][62][63][64]”
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- Authors
- Demes, B.
- Affiliations
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Demes, Brigitte
- Venue
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1987-03
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 297-303
- ISSN
- 0047-2484 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1968423894
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 6.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Human Evolution (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Keywords
- craniofacial biomechanics, maxillary sinus, occlusal stress, mechanical adaptation, stress concentration
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