09/03/2022
New paper from Phil Morris, Sam Cobb and Phil Cox using FEA to study the biomechanical significance of the large incisor seen in rodents and some other mammals
Rodents are characterised by a distinctive masticatory apparatus which includes a single pair of enlarged and continually growing incisors. This morphology, termed diprotodonty, has also independently evolved in a number of other mammals, including the aye-aye. This study examined the functional sig...