Review paper
Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form
Abstract
Facial length is one of the best known examples of heterochrony. Changes in the timing of facial growth have been invoked as a mechanism for the origin of our short human face from our long-faced extinct relatives. Such heterochronic changes arguably permit great evolutionary flexibility, allowing the mammalian face to be remodelled simply by modifying postnatal growth. Here we present new data that show that this mechanism is significantly...
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Title
Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form
Published Date
Sep 18, 2013
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Volume
4
Issue
1
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