Table 3.
Prediction results for the fossil sample using the SVM models for both the Biomechanical data from FEA and the Morphometric data obtained using GM.
| Species/Specimen | Biomechanical data | Morphometric data | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Posterior probabilities | Posterior probabilities | |||
| Hard-food eater | Soft-food eater | Hard-food eater | Soft-food eater | |
| Au. afarensis | 0.324 | 0.68 | 0.17 | 0.83 |
| Au. africanus | 0.32 | 0.68 | 0.11 | 0.89 |
| Au. sediba | 0.25 | 0.75 | 0.17 | 0.83 |
| Asian H. erectus | 0.35 | 0.65 | 0.57 | 0.43 |
| Georgian H. erectus | 0.41 | 0.59 | 0.12 | 0.88 |
| H. rudolfensis | 0.26 | 0.74 | 0.14 | 0.86 |
| P. boisei | 0.09 | 0.91 | 0.17 | 0.83 |
| P. robustus | 0.42 | 0.58 | 0.27 | 0.73 |