Modern Morphometrics in Physical AnthropologyDennis E. Slice Morphometrics has undergone a revolutionary transformation in the past two decades as new methods have been developed to address shortcomings in the traditional multivirate analysis of linear distances, angles, and indices. While there is much active research in the field, the new approaches to shape analysis are already making significant and ever-increasing contributions to biological research, including physical anthropology. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology highlights the basic machinery of the most important methods, while introducing novel extensions to these methods and illustrating how they provide enhanced results compared to more traditional approaches. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology provides a comprehensive sampling of the applications of modern, sophisticated methods of shape analysis in anthropology, and serves as a starting point for the exploration of these practices by students and researchers who might otherwise lack the local expertise or training to get started. This text is an important resource for the general morphometric community that includes ecologists, evolutionary biologists, systematists, and medical researchers. |
Contents
After Landmarks | 49 |
Semilandmarks in Three Dimensions | 73 |
An Alternative Approach to Space Curve Analysis Using | 99 |
Correcting for the Effect of Orientation in Geometric | 117 |
Fourier Descriptors Procrustes Superimposition and Data | 145 |
Problems with LandmarkBased Morphometrics | 167 |
An Invariant Approach to the Study of Fluctuating | 187 |
Comparison of Coordinate and Craniometric Data | 215 |
Assessing Craniofacial Secular Change in American Blacks | 231 |
Secular Trends in Craniofacial Asymmetry Studied | 247 |
A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Late Pleistocene | 285 |
A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of | 299 |
Functional Shape Variation in the Cercopithecine | 319 |
A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of the Hominoid | 349 |
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allometry aneuploid angle Anthropol Anthropology axis basion bending energy beringei biological Bookstein bregma centroid cercopithecine chimpanzees computed configurations coordinate data correlation covariance cranial base craniofacial craniometric curves data set deformation developmental dimensions discriminant distance Dryopithecus estimated facial females Figure fluctuating asymmetry fossil fractal frontal sinus functional geometric morphometrics gorilla grid head turning hominids Hylobates individual Jantz Krapina landmark coordinates landmark data Lele linear male mandibles mangabeys Marcus Mardia matrix mean measure midline Mladec modern humans Modern Morphometrics morphology multivariate Neanderthal nuisance variability occipital bun orthogonal outlines papionins patterns Phys plane points Pongo principal component analysis principal components Procrustes analysis Procrustes methods Procrustes superimposition Prossinger pseudo-specimens Ravosa relative warps resampled Richtsmeier Rohlf rotation sample scaling scapular scores semilandmarks sexual dimorphism shape change shape differences shape space shape variation Sivapithecus skull Slice specimens statistical superimposition surface tangent thin-plate spline trend variability variance vault vectors York