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Multivariate Craniometric Variation in Chimpanzees

Implications for Species Identification in Paleoanthropology

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The relevant literature in evolutionary biology on the formation, definition, and recognition of species is immense, to say the least. In reality, however, the composition and predominant emphasis of the symposium and present volume, entitled Species, Species Concepts, and Primate Evolution, present a much more restricted focus. We take this emphasis to be on the relationships between processes of speciation and the morphological patterns that may or may not accompany species formation in neontological groups, with the application of this knowledge to the primate fossil record in order to adequately identify and delimit extinct species in a variety of paleoanthropological investigations.

A basic problem in taxonomy at and below the species level lies in distinguishing variability within a population from that among populations. Methods for comparing populations which use the variance within samples as the yardstick for measuring the variance between two or more samples offer one way to deal with this problem...

Creel and Preuschoft, 1976, p. 220

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  2. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60628, USA

    Steven R. Leigh

  3. Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

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Shea, B.T., Leigh, S.R., Groves, C.P. (1993). Multivariate Craniometric Variation in Chimpanzees. In: Kimbel, W.H., Martin, L.B. (eds) Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3745-2_11

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