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| Title: | Correlation of tooth size and body size in living hominoid primates, with a note on relative brain size in Aegyptopithecus and Proconsul |
| Authors: | Gingerich, Philip D. |
| Issue Date: | Nov-1977 |
| Publisher: | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company |
| Citation: | Gingerich, Philip D. (1977)."Correlation of tooth size and body size in living hominoid primates, with a note on relative brain size in Aegyptopithecus and Proconsul ." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47(3): 395-398. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37578> |
| Abstract: | Second molar length and body weight are used to test the correlation between tooth size and body size in living Hominoidea. These variates are highly correlated ( r = 0.942, p <0.001), indicating that tooth size can be used in dentally unspecialized fossil hominoids as one method of predicting the average body weight of species. Based on tooth size, the average body weight of Aegyptopithecus zeuxis is estimated to have been between 4.5 and 7.5 kg, which is corroborated by known cranial and postcranial elements. Using Radinsky's estimates of brain size, the encephalization quotient (EQ) for Aegyptopithecus was between 0.65 and 1.04. A similar analysis for Proconsul africanus yields a body weight between 16 and 34 kg, and an EQ between 1.19 and 1.96. |
| URI: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db
=pubmed&list_uids=412424&dopt=citation |
| ISSN: | 0002-9483
1096-8644 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ajpa.1330470308 |
| PMID: | 412424 |
| Appears in Collections: | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of (EEB)
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