Cranial morphology is widely used to reconstruct evolutionary relationships, but its reliability
in reflecting phylogeny and population history has been questioned. Some cranial regions …

The ability of cranial morphology to reflect population/phylogenetic history, and the degree
to which it might be influenced by environmental factors and selection pressures have been …

The study of cranial variation has a long, and somewhat difficult, history within anthropology.
Much of this difficulty is rooted in the historical use of craniometric data to justify essentialist …

Agricultural foods and technologies are thought to have eased the mechanical demands of
diet—how often or how hard one had to chew—in human populations worldwide. Some …

Masticatory loading is one of the main environmental stimuli that generate craniofacial
variation among recent humans. Experimental studies on a wide variety of mammals …

Diet-related cranial variation in modern humans is well documented on a regional scale,
with ample examples of cranial changes related to the agricultural transition. However, the …

Homoiologies are homoplasies that are caused by nongenetic environmental factors. The
homoiology hypothesis predicts that osseous regions subject to repeated biomechanical …

The socioeconomic structure of an early medieval society from the Mikulčice settlement
(Czech Republic) was studied on the basis of an evaluation of the fluctuating and directional …

The transition to agriculture was a key event in human history. The extent to which this
transition is associated with biological changes in different world regions remains debated …

Variation in cranial robusticity among modern human populations is widely acknowledged
but not well‐understood. While the use of “robust” cranial traits in hominin systematics and …