Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Concurrent Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Professor, Department of Anthropology PhD, Northwestern University Postdoctoral, Duke University Medical Center

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Ravosa, M.J., Menegaz, R.A., Scott, J.E., Daegling, D.J. & McAbee, K.R. (2016) Limitations of a morphological criterion of adaptive inference in the fossil record. Biological? Reviews 91:in press. Ravosa, M.J., Scott, J.E., McAbee, K.R., Veit, A.J. & Fling, A.L. (2015) Chewed out: An experimental link between food mechanical properties and repetitive loading of the masticatory? ? apparatus in mammals. PeerJ 3:e1345; DOI10.7717/peerj.1345. Scott, J.E., McAbee, K.R., Eastman, M.M. & Ravosa, M.J. (2014) Teaching an old jaw new tricks: Diet-induced plasticity in a model organism, from weaning to adulthood. Journal of Experimental Biology 217:4099-4107. Holton, N.E., Franciscus, R.G., Ravosa, M.J. & Southard, T.E. (2014) Functional and morphological correlates of mandibular symphyseal form in a living human sample. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153:387-396. Scott, J.E., McAbee, K.R., Eastman, M.M. & Ravosa, M.J. (2014) Experimental perspective on fallback foods and dietary adaptations in early hominins. Biology Letters 10:20130789; doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0789. Daegling, D.J., Judex, S., Ozcivici, E., Ravosa, M.J., Taylor, A.B., Grine, F.E., Teaford, M.F. & Ungar, P.S. (2013) Feeding mechanics, diet, and dietary adaptations in early hominins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 151:356-371. (Invited Featured Viewpoint) Doney, E.L., Krumdick, L.A., Diener, J.M., Wathen, C.A., Chapman, S.E., Stamile, B., Scott, J.E., Ravosa, M.J. & Leevy, W.M. (2013) 3D printing of preclinical x-ray computed tomographic images. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) 73:e50250. Ravosa, M.J., Congdon, K.A. & Menegaz, R.A. (2013) Experimental approaches to musculoskeletal function in primates. In D.R. Begun (Ed.): Companion to Paleoanthropology. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 55-74. Barbolina, M.V., Liu, Y.Y., Gurler, H., Kim, M., Kajdacsy-Balla, A.A., Rooper, L., Shepard, J., Weiss, M., Shea, L.D., Penzes, P., Ravosa, M.J. & Stack, M.S. (2013) Matrix rigidity activates Wnt signaling through down-regulation of Dickkopf-1 protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry 288:141-151. Scott, J.E., Lack, J.B. & Ravosa, M.J. (2012) On the irreversibility of mandibular symphyseal fusion. Evolution 66:2940-2952. Congdon, K.A., Hammond, A.S. & Ravosa, M.J. (2012) Differential limb loading in miniature pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus): A test of chondral modeling theory. Journal of Experimental Biology 215:1472-1483. Scott, J.E., Hogue, A.S. & Ravosa, M.J. (2012) The adaptive significance of mandibular symphyseal fusion in mammals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:661-673. Hogg, R., Ravosa, M.J., Ryan, T.M. & Vinyard, C.J. (2011) The functional morphology of the anterior masticatory apparatus in tree-gouging marmosets (Cebidae, Platyrrhini). Journal of Morphology 272:833-849. Vinyard, C.J., Taylor, A.B., Teaford, M.F., Glander, K.E., Ravosa, M.J., Rossie, J.B., Ryan, T.M. & Williams, S.H. (2011) Are we looking for loads in all the right places? New research directions for studying the masticatory apparatus of New World monkeys. Anatomical Record 294:2140-2157. (Special Issue on the Evolution and Function of New World monkeys)