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From: oliver@unc.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Facial evolution using graphics
Keywords: graphics, archeology, criminology
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Date: 28 Feb 89 22:36:41 GMT
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In article <9259@ihlpl.ATT.COM> pnb@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Burgess) writes:
>A fried of mine is a faculty member of a local college and is part of
>the archeology department. He is doing some planning for some future
>work which includes the concept of using computer graphics to predict
>the evolution of human forms found in the field, helping to predict
>(for example) how a skull would be transformed over millions of years,
>using various assumptions regarding how that evolution might take
>place.
>
>
>				Paul Burgess
>				../att/ihlpl/pnb


I suggest he take a look at the book "Morphometrics in Evolutionary Biology:
The Geometry of Size and Shape Change" by Fred Bookstein, Barry Chernoff,
Ruth Elder, Julian Humphries, Gerald Smith, and Richard Strauss; Special
Publication 15, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1985.

Also, "Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation", Connelly, Brinkley, and Carlson,
eds. Raven Press, 1981.


He might also just give Fred Bookstein a call at U Mich.  FB is a 
pretty neat guy. 


Bill Oliver