31st January 2024
New publication!
How reliable is musculoskeletal modelling in producing replicable outputs? A study aiming to understand how different methods of estimating muscle structure influence our interpretations of limb function
Blog post by Ashleigh L Wiseman and Lydia Clough, also appears: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/Lucy-modelling
01st December 2023
Research trip to South Africa
In late November 2023, Dr Wiseman travelled with colleagues from the the UK and France to Johannesburg, South Africa.
They visited the hominin fossil collections at Wits University, toured the Cradle of Humankind, Sterkfontein cave system, and attended a two day long workshop called BrAIn.
14th June 2023
New publication!
Dr Wiseman has digitally reconstructed the missing soft tissue of an early human ancestor – or hominin – for the first time, revealing a capability to stand as erect as we do today.
Dr Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modelled the leg and pelvis muscles of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis using scans of ‘Lucy’: the famous fossil specimen discovered in Ethiopia in the mid-1970s.
Press release here.
Reference:
Ashleigh L. A. Wiseman. ‘Three-dimensional volumetric muscle reconstruction of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and limb, with estimations of limb leverage.’ Royal Society Open Science (2023). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230356
29th March 2023
Two new publication!
1. Quantitative biomechanical assessment of locomotor capabilities of the stem archosaur Euparkeria capensis
2. Modern three-dimensional digital methods for studying locomotor biomechanics in tetrapods
References:
Demuth OE, Herbst E, Polet DT, Wiseman ALA, Hutchinson JR. Modern three-dimensional digital methods for studying locomotor biomechanics in tetrapods. J Exp Biol. 2023 Apr 25;226(Suppl_1):jeb245132. doi: 10.1242/jeb.245132. Epub 2023 Feb 22. PMID: 36810943; PMCID: PMC10042237.
Oliver E. Demuth, Ashleigh L. A. Wiseman, John R. Hutchinson; Quantitative biomechanical assessment of locomotor capabilities of the stem archosaur Euparkeria capensis. R Soc Open Sci. 1 January 2023; 10 (1): 221195. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221195
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