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Evolution, Constraint, and Optimality in Primate Feeding Systems

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Feeding in Vertebrates

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Evolutionary biomechanical studies of primate feeding systems have benefited from deployment of techniques for measurement of food material properties, digital collections of morphological and experimental data, comparative analyses of the effects of phylogeny, size, and shape, and computational modeling of bone function.

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Notes

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    Virot et al. discuss chew frequency, 1/Tc. We invert their models to match the conventions in this paper, which discusses Tc.

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    Gintof et al. (2010) showed that fish chew with low levels of variation in Tc, similar to those in mammals, possibly because chewing in an aquatic environment imposes constraints on jaw velocity profiles related to intraoral prey manipulation in the absence of a tongue.

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Richard Kay and Myra Laird provided detailed comments on the manuscript. Matt Ravosa clarified the position of Propithecus in the data set for Ravosa et al. (2000). This work was funded by NSF HOMINID and Physical Anthropology BCS 0240865, 0504685, 0725126, 0725147, 0962682, 1732175; by NSF DBI 1338066; and by NIDCR R01-DE023816 and T32-HD009007. We thank several colleagues who have contributed significantly to our research, including David Reed, Andrea Taylor, Olga Panagiotopoulou, and David Strait.

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Ross, C.F., Iriarte-Diaz, J. (2019). Evolution, Constraint, and Optimality in Primate Feeding Systems. In: Bels, V., Whishaw, I. (eds) Feeding in Vertebrates. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13739-7_20

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