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THE two essentials for the satisfactory comparison of skulls are a common plane of orientation and a centring point that is universally valid, that is, common to all skulls throughout the vertebrate series. There is urgent need for agreement on these two criteria and particularly on a common centring point.
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ABBIE, A. Criteria for the Comparison of Skulls. Nature 199, 101 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199101a0
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