Sentences with phrase «compared skull shape»

To help clarifying this debate, researchers at the University of Helsinki compared skull shape and size, by including more than 300 species of lizards and snakes at both embryonic and adult stages.

If we compare the skull shape and appearance of the English Bulldog of today with a skull from the same breed from fifty years ago the change is quite dramatic.

Not exact matches

Differences in age and sex, says Tattersall, can not account for the wide variation in features such as jaw and brow shape not only among Dmanisi skulls, but also when compared with H. erectus fossils from other sites.

Using a statistics - based technique to compare their shape and size with the skulls of many other hominins, Harvard University paleoanthropologist Philip Rightmire found that only one of the Dmanisi skulls — at 730 cubic centimeters — fits «comfortably within the confines of H. erectus.»

In 2009 forensic anthropologist Ann Ross developed software called 3D - ID that compares three - dimensional coordinates on a skull to a database of physical characteristics, such as the shape of the forehead.

Scientists have finally been able to tackle a much - debated topic about the shape of Neanderthals» skulls compared to modern humans.

Researchers used a method that allowed them to statistically quantify variation in the shape of predatory bird skulls and see how this shape variation compared with size, what the birds ate and how they are related to each other.

Some of these have been applied to compare potential jaw pressure of varying sizes and skull shapes.