The impact of superimposition choice in geometric morphometric approaches to morphological integration

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 689-692

  Baab, Karen L ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY;

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKELETON;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; BIOMETRY; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKELETON;

EID: 84885379775     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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