Sentences with phrase «endocranial shape»
The mean endocranial shape was registered with NMB 1204 using an Iterative Closest Point (ICP) registration algorithm [69]--[71], to place it in a 3D space relevant to that of the other human endocrania.
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A) applied to BW 1204 (as in Figure S2), B) same landmark template applied to specimen BW 1240, C) and mean modern (San) endocranial shape generated from the average landmark configuration of the 6 modern human specimens.
The landmark template was designed to capture as much as possible of the endocranial shape that was common to all six modern humans.
Not exact matches
Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.