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Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Dennis E. Slice

    1. Institute for Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  • At present, there is no book available that offers an up-to-date and balanced treatment of the new morphometrics
  • Brings together people and ideas with competing visions about the optimal way to proceed in this revolutionary field, with all the major players contributing as chapter authors

Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)

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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.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. A glossary for morphometrics

    1. Modern Morphometrics

      • Dennis E. Slice
      Pages 1-45

  3. Theory and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. After Landmarks

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 49-71

    3. Semilandmarks in Three Dimensions

      • Philipp Gunz, Philipp Mitteroecker, Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 73-98

    4. An Alternative Approach to Space Curve Analysis Using the Example of the Neanderthal Occipital Bun

      • David Paul Reddy, Katerina Harvati, Johann Kim
      Pages 99-115

    5. Correcting for the Effect of Orientation in Geometric Morphometric Studies of Side-View Images of Human Heads

      • Waleed Gharaibeh
      Pages 117-143

    6. Fourier Descriptors, Procrustes Superimposition, and Data Dimensionality: An Example of Cranial Shape Analysis in Modern Human Populations

      • Michel Baylac, Martin Frieß
      Pages 145-165

    7. Problems with Landmark-Based Morphometrics for Fractal Outlines: The Case of Frontal Sinus Ontogeny

      • Hermann Prossinger
      Pages 167-185

    8. An Invariant Approach to the Study of Fluctuating Asymmetry: Developmental Instability in a Mouse Model for Down Syndrome

      • Joan T. Richtsmeier, Theodore M. Cole III, Subhash R. Lele
      Pages 187-212

  4. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Comparison of Coordinate and Craniometric Data for Biological Distance Studies

      • Ashley H. McKeown, Richard L. Jantz
      Pages 215-230

    3. Assessing Craniofacial Secular Change in American Blacks and Whites Using Geometric Morphometry

      • Daniel J. Wescott, Richard L. Jantz
      Pages 231-245

    4. Secular Trends in Craniofacial Asymmetry Studied by Geometric Morphometry and Generalized Procrustes Methods

      • Erin H. Kimmerle, Richard L. Jantz
      Pages 247-263

    5. The Morphological Integration of the Hominoid Skull: A Partial Least Squares and PC Analysis with Implications for European Middle Pleistocene Mandibular Variation

      • Markus Bastir, Antonio Rosas, H. David Sheets
      Pages 265-284

    6. A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Late Pleistocene Human Metacarpal 1 Base Shape

      • Wesley Allan Niewoehner
      Pages 285-298

    7. A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of the Relationship between Scapular Variation and Locomotion in African Apes

      • Andrea B. Taylor, Dennis E. Slice
      Pages 299-318

    8. Functional Shape Variation in the Cercopithecine Masticatory Complex

      • Michelle Singleton
      Pages 319-348

    9. A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of the Hominoid Supraorbital Region: Affinities of the Eurasian Miocene Hominoids Dryopithecus, Graecopithecus, and Sivapithecus

      • Kieran P. McNulty
      Pages 349-373

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 375-383
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"The chapters in Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology are from a symposium at the 2002 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. … It is a very valuable exposition of the strengths and bioanthropological applications of geometric morphometrics (GM). … The book is highly recommended … ." (Robert S. Corruccini, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 27 (2), April, 2006)

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  • Institute for Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Dennis E. Slice

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