Common patterns of facial ontogeny in the hominid lineage Export

@article{citeulike:2618304, abstract = {Recent evaluation of Neanderthal and modern human ontogeny suggests that taxon-specific features arose very early in development in both lineages, with early, possibly prenatal, morphological divergence followed by parallel postnatal developmental patterns. Here we use morphometric techniques to compare hominoid facial growth patterns, and show that this developmental phenomenon is, in fact, not unique to comparisons between Neanderthals and modern humans but extends to Australopithecus africanus and to the hominoid lineage more broadly. This finding suggests that a common pattern of juvenile facial development may be more widespread and that the roots of ontogenetically early developmental differentiation are deep - perhaps predating the ape/human split of 6+ million years ago. Anat Rec (New Anat) 269:142-147, 2002. {\copyright} 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.}, author = {Ackermann, Rebecca R. and Krovitz, Gail E.}, citeulike-article-id = {2618304}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.10119}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/95015699/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/ar.10119}, journal = {The Anatomical Record}, keywords = {africanus, analysis, anatomy, australopithecus, comparative, craniofacial, development, distance, edma, euclidean, evolution, hominoid, human, matrix, morphology, morphometric}, number = {3}, pages = {142--147}, posted-at = {2008-04-01 02:44:21}, priority = {2}, title = {Common patterns of facial ontogeny in the hominid lineage}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.10119}, volume = {269}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2618304 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2618304 N2 - Recent evaluation of Neanderthal and modern human ontogeny suggests that taxon-specific features arose very early in development in both lineages, with early, possibly prenatal, morphological divergence followed by parallel postnatal developmental patterns. Here we use morphometric techniques to compare hominoid facial growth patterns, and show that this developmental phenomenon is, in fact, not unique to comparisons between Neanderthals and modern humans but extends to Australopithecus africanus and to the hominoid lineage more broadly. This finding suggests that a common pattern of juvenile facial development may be more widespread and that the roots of ontogenetically early developmental differentiation are deep - perhaps predating the ape/human split of 6+ million years ago. Anat Rec (New Anat) 269:142-147, 2002. © 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc. IS - 3 JF - The Anatomical Record EP - 147 TI - Common patterns of facial ontogeny in the hominid lineage VL - 269 SP - 142 KW - africanus KW - analysis KW - anatomy KW - australopithecus KW - comparative KW - craniofacial KW - development KW - distance KW - edma KW - euclidean KW - evolution KW - hominoid KW - human KW - matrix KW - morphology KW - morphometric AU - Ackermann, Rebecca AU - Krovitz, Gail PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.10119 ER -