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RRphylo (version 2.5.0)

DataApes: Example dataset

Description

Geometric morphometrics shape data regarding Apes' facial skeleton and Apes phylogentic trees (Profico et al. 2017).

Usage

data(DataApes)

Arguments

Format

A list containing:

$PCstage

A data frame containing 38 shape variables for Apes' facial skull at different ontogenetic stages

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$PCadult

A data frame containing 3 shape variables for Apes' facial skull

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$Tstage

Phylogenetic tree of Apes including the different ontogenetic stages of each species as polytomies

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$Tadult

Phylogenetic tree of Apes

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$CentroidSize

numeric vector of Centroid Size values of ‘PCstage’

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References

Profico, A., Piras, P., Buzi, C., Di Vincenzo, F., Lattarini, F., Melchionna, M., Veneziano, A., Raia, P. & Manzi, G. (2017). The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration. American journal of primatology,79: e22721.