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15 - General Engineering

University of Hull

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Output 8 of 55 in the submission

Article title

Biomechanical assessment of evolutionary changes in the lepidosaurian skull

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1073/pnas.0813156106

Title of journal

Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of Ame

Article number

Volume number

106

Issue number

First page of article

8273

ISSN of journal

0027-8424

Year of publication

2009

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

There is huge speculation about the evolution of skulls and why certain skull features have appeared and disappeared several times during skull evolution. This BBSRC-funded research (£616k) used the first combined musculoskeletal (MDA) and finite element (FEA) models of a (lizard) skull to explain the biomechanical significance of various skull features. The work led to further BBSRC (£721k), NERC, RAEng (£438k) projects at Hull, considering skull evolution, growth and development and biomechanics of human clinical conditions (e.g. craniosynostosis). It established the combined MDA/FEA methodology in skull biomechanics now being adopted throughout this field (e.g. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2013/389-allosaurus-feeding; NERC-funding Bristol: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/C8836455-5ED8-4E25-898A-F35215715DA0, Hull: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/9E6CF893-0C86-451A-BEFA-934687465A3E).

Interdisciplinary

Yes

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract