Studies of craniofacial development and evolution

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ID6038245
AutoresPaul O''Higgin (0000-0002-9797-0809, The University of Western Australia), P O'Higgins (Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, and Centre for Human Biology University of Western Australia Nedlands 6009 Australia), Ian L Dryden (0000-0003-4900-3571, University of Leeds)
Año1992
Volumen27
Número3
Páginas105-112
Fecha de publicación1992-10-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1834-4453.1992.tb00293.x
OpenAlexW1966917105
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas12

In this paper we review the basic mechanisms underlying the post‐natal growth of the cranium and consider two recent advances in methodology which offer the prospect of improving our ability to study growth changes in the skull. Recent advances in techniques for the study of craniofacial remodelling are combined with a numerical approach to the study of shape changes, the thin plate spline, in order to examine the correspondence between the spatial distribution of resorbing fields and bone displacements in the sooty mangabey, Cercocebus atys.Our results indicate that in ontogeny, as in phylogeny, changing patterns of bone displacements are first accommodated by changing rates of cortical remodelling in old world monkeys. Only later, when displacements are more extreme do remodelling fields transform from depository to resorptive. This study demonstrates that transformation grids may be usefully combined with scanning electron microscopy of cortical surfaces in studies of craniofacial development

Biology · Craniofacial · Evolutionary biology · Skull · Medical Image Segmentation Techniques · Morphological variations and asymmetry · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Anatomy

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