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Thanks, Coyote! Any chance you could explain to me why the skulls seem to be front-views and side views? I'm assuming that the vertical scale is time.

Thanks,

-Jesse

957 posted on 04/14/2008 8:41:08 AM PDT by mrjesse (Could it be true? Imagine, being forgiven, and having a cause, greater then yourself, to live for!)

Thanks, Coyote! Any chance you could explain to me why the skulls seem to be front-views and side views? I'm assuming that the vertical scale is time.

No idea of why the various views were selected.

The vertical is time.

It is hard finding good representations of these things, as most journal articles dealing with the subject use text or mathematics rather than graphics. In evolutionary studies, many of the comparative articles in the past 20 years have relied on statistics for comparisons, particularly multivariate statistics. That does not make for very sexy graphics.

958 posted on 04/14/2008 8:50:06 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)