| Autor: |
Piechulek, H., Rösing, F. W. |
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Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie; June 1986, Vol. 76 Issue: 2 p169-188, 20p |
| Abstrakt: |
The known drawbacks of morphognosis (subjective development of the graded schemes and subjective trait scoring) may be overcome by a quantitative computer based measuring of two-dimensional traits. For them the new term topology has been chosen. This paper presents a first application in physical anthropology; 28 newly defined topological traits have been measured in 311 skulls of mongolid, europid and melanesid origin, moreover, they have been critically compared to 37 conventional one-dimensional measurements. — Correlations and factor analysis give a meaningful image of the trait connections. Discriminant analyses reveal a better separation of the groups according to conventional as compared to topological measurements; the main reason for this is that topological traits predominantly are small-scaled, whereas large-scaled traits separate better. — On the basis of theoretical considerations and past experience about trait complexes it is concluded that topology might be better applicable to finer differentiations within populations and to evolutionary objectives. |
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