『Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology』

Denice E. Slice (ed.)

(2005年,Springer-VerlagISBN:0306486970



近刊予告されていた論文集が出た.ハードカバー・400ページで US$ 129.00.ま,手頃な価格でしょ.目次を見るかぎり,必ずしも landmark-based な方法ばかりではなく,outline-based なフーリエ法やinvariant法も含まれているようだ.




【目次】
Preface.
−Modern Morphometrics.

Part 1: 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.

Part 2: 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.
−Index.