Brain expansion during ontogeny has been identified as a key factor for explaining the growth pattern of neurocranial bones. However, the dynamics of this
a short time of divergence.Speothos venaticusdiffered in its ontogenetic trajectory, with the difference being stronger between adults of this species and the remaining canids. The skull configuration is consistent with the hyper-carnivorous diet. In the case ofChrysocyon brachyurus, size plays an impo...
Open AccessArticle by Tyler Antonelli 1, Carissa L. Leischner 2and Adam Hartstone-Rose 3,* 1 Dental Education, University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA 2 Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC...
frontal process, as well as into its temporal process; the identification of these trajectories (functional buttresses) was possible because of the occurrence of the higher values of the stress in these regions than in others located nearest to them in the bones of the facial skeleton [7,9,14...