Assessment of sexual dimorphism: a critical discussion in a (paleo-) anthropological context.

Abstract excerpt

Viewed as a biological concept, sexual dimorphism does not appear to motivate debate. However, with the aim of measuring such dimorphism, several indexes have been proposed, and not all of them have been regarded as equally reliable by the biological community. The main divergence between the indexes is that their definition is based on appraising only partial features (e.g., the mean parameter) of the set of...

Topics

• Algorithms
• Anthropology, Physical
• Bayes Theorem
• Female
• Fossils
• Genetic Variation
• Humans
• Male
• Models, Genetic
• Models, Statistical
• Multivariate Analysis
• Normal Distribution