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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Evol. 2010 Nov 5;60(1):94–105. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.09.007

Table 4.

Results of null hypothesis testing for differences in form between humans and all other groups for six landmark subsets.

Landmark subset All apes Great
apes
Bonobos Chimpanzees Gorillas Orangutans Gibbons
Frontal Males 0.041* 0.243 0.284 0.072 0.001** 0.068 0.030*
Females 0.006* 0.116 0.027* 0.225 0.009* 0.091 0.021*
Cortical
   surface
Males 0.002** 0.004** 0.017* 0.064 0.001* 0.267 0.001**
Females 0.002** 0.001** 0.001** 0.012* 0.018* 0.007* 0.004**
Hindbrain Males 0.012* 0.086 0.934 0.355 0.043* 0.064 0.001**
Females 0.058 0.003** 0.015* 0.002** 0.006* 0.001** 0.251
Internal
   forebrain
Males 0.001** 0.002** 0.014* 0.012* 0.111 0.190 0.005*
Females 0.004** 0.006* 0.041* 0.019* 0.244 0.003** 0.061
Parieto-
   temporal
Males 0.006* 0.017* 0.021* 0.203 0.797 0.360 0.020*
Females 0.007* 0.004** 0.047* 0.150 0.035* 0.178 0.007*
Parieto-
   occipital
Males 0.190 0.184 0.141 0.560 0.780 0.683 0.077
Females 0.024* 0.190 0.248 0.146 0.706 0.045* 0.082

Each column represents comparisons between humans and the groups listed in the first row.

*

indicates significant differences (p ≤ 0.05);

**

indicates significant differences after Bonferroni corrections for multiple comparisons (p < 0.0042).