modern variation and evolutionary change in the hominin eye orbit
modern variation and evolutionary change in the hominin eye orbit
modern variation and evolutionary change in the hominin eye orbit
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Indices & Size Estimates Label L<strong>and</strong>marksCranial Index cri xcb * 100 / golOrbital Index obi obb * 100 / obhUpper Facial Index ufi nph * 100 / zybCranial SizeGM crg (gol * xcb * bbh)·³³³³³Orbital SizeGM obg (obb * obh * obd)·³³³³³Table 2.3: Indexes <strong>and</strong> size variables derived from l<strong>in</strong>ear measurementsSize of <strong>the</strong> <strong>orbit</strong> is <strong>in</strong>vestigated us<strong>in</strong>g measurements of <strong>orbit</strong>al volume (obv),<strong>orbit</strong>al depth (obd), distance from basion to <strong>the</strong> superior <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>ferior <strong>orbit</strong>al marg<strong>in</strong>s (bso,bio), <strong>orbit</strong>al breadth (obb), <strong>orbit</strong>al height (obh) as well as bi-<strong>orbit</strong>al <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>ter<strong>orbit</strong>albreadth (ekb, dkb). A ratio of <strong>orbit</strong>al width/height was created to test for differences <strong>in</strong>shape of <strong>the</strong> exterior marg<strong>in</strong>s (obi), <strong>and</strong> vertical orientation of <strong>the</strong> <strong>orbit</strong> relative to <strong>the</strong>Frankfurt Horizontal Plane facilitates an exam<strong>in</strong>ation of population differences, <strong>and</strong><strong>evolutionary</strong> <strong>change</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>orbit</strong>al frontation (obf).Orbital frontation was determ<strong>in</strong>ed by measur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> angle formed between a straitvertical l<strong>in</strong>e across <strong>the</strong> upper <strong>and</strong> lower <strong>orbit</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Frankfurt Horizontal Plane (porionto <strong>orbit</strong>ale).This was determ<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> 1877 by <strong>the</strong> International Congress ofAnthropologists to be a st<strong>and</strong>ard plane for normal skull orientation (Byrnes, 2007), <strong>and</strong>represents a flat l<strong>in</strong>e that runs parallel to <strong>the</strong> floor <strong>in</strong> most <strong>in</strong>dividuals. However, <strong>the</strong>biological rational of <strong>the</strong> Frankfurt Horizontal Plane (FH) as a way of orient<strong>in</strong>g skulls <strong>in</strong>reference to normal head position has recently come <strong>in</strong>to question (Barash, Marom, 2008;Strait & Ross, 1999).31