• Question: on a scale of 1 to 10 how interesting do you find leg bones?

    Asked by cerysklewzyc to Charlotte on 12 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by ninnin.
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      Charlotte Brassey answered on 12 Jun 2012:


      Haha, 10 because I’m paid to find leg bones interesting.

      Actually, the reason why lots of biomechanics study leg bones in particular is because they’re fairly simple (your leg bones are pretty close to being regular beams). But, this means there’s already been lots of work done on leg bones, and perhaps some of it is a little boring!

      Skulls are much more exciting things to study! But they’re also really complicated. Once I’ve finished my PhD, I would quite like to spend some time working on skulls (particularly jaws)

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