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## Abstract The biomechanical determinants of the scaling of chew cycle duration are important components of models of primate feeding systems at all levels, from the neuromechanical to the ecological. Chew cycle durations were estimated in 35 species of primates and analyzed in conjunction with data on morphological variables of the feeding system estimating moment of inertia of the mandible and force production capacity of the chewing muscles. Data on scaling of primate chew cycle duration were compared with the predictions of simple pendulum and forced mass–spring system models of the feeding system. The gravity‐driven pendulum model best predicts the observed cycle duration scaling but isrejected as biomechanically unrealistic. The forced mass–spring model predicts larger increases in chew cycle duration with size than observed, but provides reasonable predictions of cycle duration scaling. We hypothesize that intrinsic properties of the muscles predict spring‐like behavior of the jaw elevator muscles during opening and fast close phases of the jaw cycle and that modulation of stiffness by the central nervous system leads to spring‐like properties during the slow close/power st
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- Author
- Callum F. Ross; David A. Reed; Rhyan L. Washington; Alison Eckhardt; Fred Anapol; Nazima Shahnoor
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0002-9483)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)