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Subject: RE: Testing morphology for stasis
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 07:02:08 -0400
From: Ilker ERCAN <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Dear Joe
This study can assist ....
Coll. Antropol. 34 (2010) 2: 493–499
Geometric Morphometric Study and Cluster Analysis of Late Byzantine and
Modern Human Crania
S T Ozdemir, I Ercan, G Ozkaya, N S Cankur and Y S Erdal
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 06:10:17 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Testing morphology for stasis
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> Subject: Re: Testing morphology for stasis
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 03:33:19 -0400
> From: Manabu Sakamoto <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
>
> Dear Joe,
>
> I don't know if you are familiar with the statistics software R, but
> there is a package for it called "geiger" that has functions to test for
> possible models of character evolution across a given phylogeny,
> including stasis, Brownian, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, and trended. Perhaps you
> could check it out?
>
> kind regards,
> Manabu
>
> Manabu Sakamoto, PhD
> Postdoctoral Research Associate
> School of Earth Sciences
> University of Bristol
> Bristol, UK, BS8 1RJ
>
> Tel: +44 (0) 117 954 5421
> Fax: +44 (0)117 925 3385
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> On 23 May 2011, at 06:56, morphmet wrote:
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> >
> >
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> > Subject: Testing morphology for stasis
> > Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:53:59 -0400
> > From: OWEN J.T.D. <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> > Dear morphmet,
> >
> > I have a 3D dataset where I have been comparing morphology and
phylogeny
> > at family level (suiforms). Specifically I have generated a phenogram
> > (based on procrustes distances) to compare and contrast with the
family
> > phylogeny. The phenogram is lacking in some sub-species but has
> > representatives for the genus we are examining (the suids, the
phylogeny
> > also uses Hippopo! tamus an d Peccary as outgroups which we do not
have).
> >
> > I have genetically divergent but morphologically similar populations;
> > based on prior knowledge of species history, habitat and diet
homoplasy
> > is deemed unlikely and as such I wish to test the dataset for stasis.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knows of methods by which I could assess
> > stasis based on congruence between morphological and genetic
> > relationships, or point me in the direction of papers where this has
> > been done.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > -----------------------------
> >
> > Joseph Owen
> > PhD Research
> > Departments of Anthropology and Archaeology
> > University of Durham
> >
>
>
>
