๐”– Bobbio Scriptorium
โœฆ   LIBER   โœฆ

Metric variation and species recognition in the fossil record

โœ Scribed by J. Michael Plavcan; Dana A. Cope

Book ID
102203206
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
476 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
1060-1538

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

โœฆ Synopsis

In this essay, we review the use of simple metric statistics as tools for species recognition. Our emphasis is on measures of relative variation and how they should be interpreted in light of variation in living species. We do not consider a wide variety of other statistical techniques used for phenetic classification, but do emphasize that metric variation is only one among many tools useful for this purpose. Of course the best interpretation of the meaning of variation will be achieved by combining as many lines of evidence as possible.

๐Ÿ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES

Species in the primate fossil record
Species in the primate fossil record
โœ Gingerich, Philip D. ๐Ÿ“‚ Article ๐Ÿ“… 2014 ๐Ÿ› John Wiley and Sons ๐ŸŒ English โš– 154 KB
Patterns of tooth crown size and shape v
Patterns of tooth crown size and shape variation in great apes and humans and species recognition in the hominid fossil record
โœ Jeremiah E. Scott; Charles A. Lockwood ๐Ÿ“‚ Article ๐Ÿ“… 2004 ๐Ÿ› John Wiley and Sons ๐ŸŒ English โš– 167 KB ๐Ÿ‘ 2 views

## Abstract It has been suggested that patterns of craniodental variation in living hominids (__Gorilla__, __Homo__, __Pan__, and __Pongo__) may be useful for evaluating variation in fossil hominid assemblages. Using this approach, a fossil sample exhibiting a pattern of variation that deviates fro