Table 4.

Basicranial dimensions: Narrow-sense heritability estimations (h²) and associated standard errors (SE). For coding details see Table 2

Distance							Covariates
Measure		Landmarks	Howells	h2	SE	P	Variance explained	Significant covariates
Total	breadth	ba>po l		0.29	0.12	0.005	0.20	sex
	length	n>ba	BNL	0.24	0.10	0.003	0.17	sex
Other	breadth	ra r>ra l	AUB*	0.40	0.12	0.000	0.19	sex
	length	o>ba	FOL	0.38	0.13	0.001	0.13	sex
	breadth	i>po l		0.27	0.14	0.011	0.17	sex, year birth, sex*year birth
	breadth	adml>pam l		0.23	0.14	0.030	−	−
	breadth	po l>ho		0.21	0.14	0.049	0.22	sex, year birth
	breadth	ba>ho		0.20	0.12	0.034	0.04	sex
	length	i>o		0.16	0.12	0.080	0.02	year birth
	height	ms l>stf l		0.15	0.12	0.081	0.15	sex
	height	po l>iam l		0.00	0.12	0.486	0.07	sex, deformation, year birth