Technical note: A new method for measuring long bone curvature using 3D landmarks and semi-landmarks

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 658-664

  De Groote, Isabelle ^a   Lockwood, Charles A ^a   Aiello, Leslie C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Human evolution; Human variation; Morphometrics; Neanderthals; Post crania

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; FEMUR; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOMETRICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE; EVALUATION STUDY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CRANIA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE AND BONES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77950851616     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21225     Document Type: Article

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