Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology

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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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.

• anthropology
• development
• evolution
• neanderthal
• ontogeny
• physical anthropology

From the reviews:

"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)

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

  Dennis E. Slice

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