Description

Geometric morphometrics shape data regarding Apes' facial skeleton and Apes phylogentic trees (Profico et al. 2017).

Usage

Format

A list containing:

$PCstage

A data frame containing 38 shape variables for Apes' facial skull at different ontogenetic stages

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$PCadult

A data frame containing 3 shape variables for Apes' facial skull

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$Tstage

Phylogenetic tree of Apes including the different ontogenetic stages of each species as polytomies

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$Tadult

Phylogenetic tree of Apes

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$CentroidSize

numeric vector of Centroid Size values of ‘PCstage’

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Author(s)

Pasquale Raia, Silvia Castiglione, Carmela Serio, Alessandro Mondanaro, Marina Melchionna, Mirko Di Febbraro, Antonio Profico, Francesco Carotenuto

References

Profico, A., Piras, P., Buzi, C., Di Vincenzo, F., Lattarini, F., Melchionna, M., Veneziano, A., Raia, P. & Manzi, G. (2017). The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration. American journal of primatology,79: e22721.