Table 4. Engineering-based performance measure shifts associated with ecological traits.
Category abbreviations as in Table 1.
| Temporalis-driven | Masseter-driven | |||||
| Stiffness | Safety factor | Efficiency | Stiffness | Safety factor | Efficiency | |
| G1. Small to large | No change | Higher | Lower | No change | Higher | Higher |
| FE1. Broad to narrow | Higher | Higher | Higher | Lower | No change | No change |
| LH2. Late to early | Higher | Higher | Lower | Lower | No change | No change |
| EV1. High to low | Higher | Higher | Higher | Higher | Higher | Higher |
| FE2. Omnivory-herbivory | Higher | Higher | Lower | Higher | Higher | Higher |
| FE2. Carnivory-herbivory | Higher | Higher | Lower | Higher | Higher | Lower |