Principles for the virtual reconstruction of hominin crania

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-62

  Gunz, Philipp ^a,b   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^b,c   Neubauer, Simon ^a,b   Weber, Gerhard W ^b   Bookstein, Fred L ^b,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arago; Geometric morphometrics; Missing data; Nariokotome; Procrustes; Semilandmarks; Taung; Thin plate spline; Virtual reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COORDINATE; CRANIUM; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; MORPHOMETRY; PALEONTOLOGY; PRESERVATION; RECONSTRUCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CRANIA;

EID: 67649976615     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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