Table 3 LDA Mahalanobis and procrustes (in italics) distances between groups with P-values based on 1000 permutations.

From: Inferences about fossil hominin locomotion through 3D morphometric analysis of wrist ligament insertion sites

 

H. sapiens

P. troglodytes

G. gorilla

P. pygmaeus

A. afarensis

12.37 (p = 0.03)

0.18 (p < 0.001)

20.34 (p = 0.11)

0.07 (p = 0.68)

8.89 (p = 0.19)

0.11 (p = 0.05)

7.80 (p = 0.04)

0.11 (p = 0.02)

A. anamensis

14.78 (p = 0.09)

0.21 (p = 0.003)

14.02 (p = 0.71)

0.13 (p = 0.29)

11.91 (p = 0.27)

0.18 (p = 0.02)

6.09 (p = 0.31)

0.16 (p = 0.06)

A. sediba

19.19 (p = 0.002)

0.19 (p = 0.001)

22.26 (p = 0.4)

0.09 (p = 0.8)

12.11 (p = 0.20)

0.16 (p = 0.01)

6.90 (p = 0.35)

0.22 (p = 0.22)

P. robustus

24.50 (p = 0.03)

0.23 (p = 0.001)

31.12 (p = 0.20)

0.14 (p = 0.24)

14.81 (p = 0.07)

0.17 (p = 0.02)

7.78 (p = 0.9)

0.19 (p = 0.07)

H. neanderthalensis

18.53 (p = 0.001)

0.10 (p = 0.003)

16.62 (p = 0.20)

0.13 (p = 0.04)

10.49 (p = 0.06)

0.17 (p < 0.0001)

7.74 (p = 0.07)

0.12 (p = 0.007)

H. sapiens archaic

25.38 (p = 0.001)

0.14 (p = 0.005)

20.29 (p = 0.49)

0.14 (p = 0.22)

13.81 (p = 0.14)

0.19 (p = 0.03)

9.42 (p = 0.18)

0.14 (p = 0.23)