Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0453068

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0453068

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Implications of morphological and molecular measures of diversity in papionine primates for interpretation of hominid phylogeny. Landmark morphometrics, superquadric modeling based on 3-D surface point mapping and conventional osteometric measurements, will be used to gauge morphological differences among macaques and baboons that are known to exchange genes across taxonomic boundaries. Morphological findings will be compared with genetic data (mitochondrial and some nuclear gene measures) on the same populations, to test for congruity between genetic and morphological divergence. The same techniques for measuring morphological divergence will be used on early hominid specimens (Miocene through Plio/Pleistocene). Comparisons between extents of morphological dispersion among hominids and monkeys will be used to test taxonomic and phylogenetic hypotheses about human evolution.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $220,570.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Anthropology | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified | Biological (Physical) Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Biological sciences |

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