Morphometrics and phylogenetics: Principal components of shape from cranial modules are neither appropriate nor effective cladistic characters

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 240-243

  Adams, D C ^a   Cardini, A ^b,c   Monteiro, L R ^b,d   O'Higgins, P ^b   Rohlf, F J ^e  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Human origins

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CRANIUM; GEOMETRY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650902701     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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