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12-08-2014, 09:11 AM( This post was last modified: 12-08-2014, 09:12 AM by GuateGojira )
(12-08-2014, 01:41 AM)'Siegfried' Wrote: These weights are pure conjecture, right?
No conjecture here, Siegfried. Tigerluver and I have made a hard and long work with all these formulas.
In my case, I used the formulas of Van Valkenburg (1990) and Legendre & Roth (1988) for dentition and skulls, also Sorkin (2008) and Christiansen & Harris (2005; 2009) for long bones and skull too. The formulas of Anyonge (1993) were not used as they give wrong results because he included bears and canids in they samples. For more data, check the links that I provided in my last post. [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]
In the case of Tigerluver, which is a Biology student in the University, he developed his own formulas with a large database and his results most be taken in count. He will publish his data soon in a scientific journal or his thesis.