Thirty years of geometric morphometrics: Achievements, challenges, and the ongoing quest for biological meaningfulness

P Mitteroecker, K Schaefer - American journal of biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The foundations of geometric morphometrics were worked out about 30 years ago and have
continually been refined and extended. What has remained as a central thrust and source of …

Size, shape, and form: concepts of allometry in geometric morphometrics

CP Klingenberg - Development genes and evolution, 2016 - Springer
Allometry refers to the size-related changes of morphological traits and remains an essential
concept for the study of evolution and development. This review is the first systematic …

The impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on public transit demand in the United States

L Liu, HJ Miller, J Scheff - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions led to major transit demand decline for
many public transit systems in the United States. This paper is a systematic analysis of the …

Earliest known human burial in Africa

M Martinón-Torres, F d'Errico, E Santos, A Álvaro Gallo… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and
debate,–. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa …

[BUCH][B] The archaeology of human bones

S Mays - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

A method for assessing phylogenetic least squares models for shape and other high-dimensional multivariate data

DC Adams - Evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Studies of evolutionary correlations commonly use phylogenetic regression (ie, independent
contrasts and phylogenetic generalized least squares) to assess trait covariation in a …

Normal human craniofacial growth and development from 0 to 4 years

C Liang, A Profico, C Buzi, RH Khonsari, D Johnson… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of human craniofacial growth (increase in size) and development
(change in shape) is important in the clinical treatment of a range of conditions that affects it …

Facial aging trajectories: A common shape pattern in male and female faces is disrupted after menopause

S Windhager, P Mitteroecker, I Rupić… - American journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Despite variation in lifestyle and environment, first signs of human facial aging
show between the ages of 20–30 years. It is a cumulative process of changes in the skin …

Allometry and sexual dimorphism in the human pelvis

B Fischer, P Mitteroecker - The Anatomical Record, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sexual dimorphism in the human pelvis has evolved in response to several jointly acting
selection regimes that result from the pelvis' multiple roles in locomotion and childbirth …

Extreme climate, rather than population history, explains mid‐facial morphology of Northern Asians

A Evteev, AL Cardini, I Morozova… - American journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have examined mid‐facial cold adaptation among either widely dispersed
and genetically very diverse groups of humans isolated for tens of thousands of years, or …