Hominization tendencies in the evolution of primates in multidimensional modeling
Evolutionary radiation of primates determined many developmental paths among which there is a hominization tendency that leads to the emergence of modern human. This evolution was studied on the basis of measurements constituting Morant and Sergi’s index (Sergi(1940)), which were taken on 68 skulls of chosen adult monkeys, apes and fossil hominids. They were classified into 10 separate taxons. The skull measurements were worked out with the help of the following methods: descriptive statistics and...