New method enables 3D tongue modelling, for example from fossilized hominin skulls, and might help understand the emergence of human speech

New method enables 3D tongue modelling, for example from fossilized hominin skulls, and might help understand the emergence of human speech.

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011808

Article Title: Predicting primate tongue morphology based on geometrical skull matching. A first step towards an application on fossil hominins

Author Countries: France

Funding: This work is a production of the members of the team "Origins of speech" hosted at Sorbonne University - Institut des Sciences du Calcul et des Données. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.