Rolling of the jaw is essential for mammalian chewing and tribosphenic molar function

Rolling of the jaw is essential for mammalian chewing and tribosphenic molar function

Rolling of the jaw is essential for mammalian chewing and tribosphenic molar function, Published online: 13 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0940-x

The ancestral tribosphenic therian chewing stroke is conserved in Monodelphis domestica, and couples tooth-row eversion and inversion in jaw opening and closing, respectively, with a rotational grinding stroke.

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