Prof W I Sellers

Professor in Natural Science

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ORCID: 0000-0002-2913-5406
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Areas of expertise

  • QL Zoology - biomechanics, computer simulation, gait analysis, palaeontology

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Publications

The biomechanical importance of the scaphoid-centrale fusion during simulated knuckle-walking and its implications for human locomotor evolution

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Respiratory evolution in archosaurs

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Inferring lifestyle for Aves and Theropoda: A model based on curvatures of extant avian ungual bones

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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Projects

The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Galen's On Simple Drugs and the Recovery of Lost Texts through Sophisticated Imaging Techniques.

Project: Research

First steps: the mechanics and control of velocity change in humans

Project: Research

Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life

Project: Research

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Media coverage and contribution

BBC FOCUS MAGAZINE: Bird-like lungs helped dinosaurs rule the roost

Press/Media: Research

MAIL ONLINE: Rigid 'superlungs' gave dinosaurs enough energy to run and fight in the air of the Mesozoic era which had HALF the oxygen of today's atmosphere

Press/Media: Research

NEWSWEEK: Dinosaurs May Have Dominated Prehistoric Earth Due to Super-efficient Bird-like Lungs

Press/Media: Research

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Datasets

Supplementary material from "Quadrupedal locomotor simulation: producing more realistic gaits using dual-objective optimization"

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Data from: Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan

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Student Theses

Inferring lifestyle for Aves and Theropoda: A model based on curvatures of extant avian ungual bones

UoM administered thesis: Master of Science by Research

The application of conventional and novel morphometric techniques to problems in human evolution and ontogeny

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Morpho-functional analyses of the primate skeleton: applying 3D geometric morphometrics, finite element analysis and phylogenetic comparative methods to assess ecomorphological questions in extant and extinct anthropoids

UoM administered thesis: Phd

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