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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Evol. 2008 Aug 19;55(4):682–690. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.03.010

Table 3.

Means and standard deviations (SD) for bone volume fractions (BV/TV), anisotropy (SVD), and trabecular thickness (Tb.Th) in the mastoid process of the specimens included in the statistical analyses. Average image resolution is provided for each sex and species. Results for each individual specimen are provided in Online Supplementary Materials Table 2

Species Sex Resolution (mm) BV/TV Anisotropy Tb.Th (mm)




X, Y Z Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Papio M 0.064 0.072 0.31 0.06 1.93 0.29 0.30 0.007
F 0.061 0.067 0.34 0.08 1.84 0.09 0.29 0.08
All 0.062 0.068 0.33 0.07 1.87 0.15 0.31 0.07
Gorilla M 0.082 0.092 0.19 0.02 2.96 1.02 0.41 0.17
F 0.088 0.100 0.22 0.04 3.09 0.38 0.37 0.12
All 0.085 0.096 0.20 0.04 3.02 0.76 0.40 0.14
Pan M 0.070 0.079 0.29 0.09 1.80 0.25 0.28 0.03
F 0.068 0.078 0.23 0.06 1.87 0.23 0.27 0.03
All 0.069 0.079 0.26 0.07 1.84 0.22 0.27 0.03
Homo M 0.078 0.088 0.31 0.07 2.38 0.39 0.36 0.05
F 0.070 0.079 0.26 0.05 2.29 0.32 0.34 0.07
All 0.074 0.083 0.28 0.06 2.33 0.34 0.35 0.06