Table of Contents

A glossary for morphometrics.- Modern Morphometrics.- Theory and Methods.- After Landmarks.- Semilandmarks in Three Dimensions.- An Alternative Approach to Space Curve Analysis Using the Example of the Neanderthal Occipital Bun.- Correcting for the Effect of Orientation in Geometric Morphometric Studies of Side-View Images of Human Heads.- Fourier Descriptors, Procrustes Superimposition, and Data Dimensionality: An Example of Cranial Shape Analysis in Modern Human Populations.- Problems with Landmark-Based Morphometrics for Fractal Outlines: The Case of Frontal Sinus Ontogeny.- An Invariant Approach to the Study of Fluctuating Asymmetry: Developmental Instability in a Mouse Model for Down Syndrome.- Applications.- Comparison of Coordinate and Craniometric Data for Biological Distance Studies.- Assessing Craniofacial Secular Change in American Blacks and Whites Using Geometric Morphometry.- Secular Trends in Craniofacial Asymmetry Studied by Geometric Morphometry and Generalized Procrustes Methods.- The Morphological Integration of the Hominoid Skull: A Partial Least Squares and PC Analysis with Implications for European Middle Pleistocene Mandibular Variation.- A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Late Pleistocene Human Metacarpal 1 Base Shape.- A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of the Relationship between Scapular Variation and Locomotion in African Apes.- Functional Shape Variation in the Cercopithecine Masticatory Complex.- A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of the Hominoid Supraorbital Region: Affinities of the Eurasian Miocene Hominoids Dryopithecus, Graecopithecus, and Sivapithecus.

Reviews

From the reviews: "The chapters in Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology are from a symposium at the 2002 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. … It is a very valuable exposition of the strengths and bioanthropological applications of geometric morphometrics (GM). … The book is highly recommended … ." (Robert S. Corruccini, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 27 (2), April, 2006)