Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Hominoid Dental Systematics: Multivariate Analyses of Allometrically Correct Odontometrics
AU  - Mahaney MC
AU  - Sciulli PW
AU  - Schneider KN
Y1  - 1984
VL  - 22
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 203
EP  - 210
KW  - Hominoids
KW  - Dental systematics allometry
KW  - Multivariate analysis
N2  - 
N2  - This paper reports on continuing research into the dental evidence for biological affinities among hominoid species and populations. Previous analyses of odontometric data for hominids and pongids have yielded results which are easily reconciled to classifications based upon molecular, biochemical, and cytogenetic data, especially when deciduous data are considered.
In these analyses mean buccolingual diameters for both adult and juvenile members of species traditionally assigned to the Hominidae and Pongidae were corrected for allometry using a differential exponentiation method suggested by Corruccini (1978). The corrected data were then subjected to cluster analysis and principal coordinates analysis, and the patterns of affinities elucidated from these analyses were compared to those implied by various classification schemes. The results of these multivariate analyses of allometrically correct odontometrics tend to support the conclusions of previous work with non-corrected data by suggesting that traditional family level distinctions between apes and humans are less tenable than subfamilial ones.

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