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A series of twenty-three skeletal variables are tested for their utility as estimators of body size, measured as partial skeletal weight, over 286 Old World anthropoids. Several variables proved to be consistently accurate in this for the present sample: bizygomatic breadth, bicondylar femoral width, skull length, orbital width, basioninion, femoral circumference and vertebral area. The only reasonably acceptable mandibular measurement was mandibular breadth. Other variables that have been used as size estimators in previous studies proved to be less accurate.
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Steudel, K. Body size estimators in primate skeletal material. Int J Primatol 2, 81–90 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02692302
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