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SCIENTIFIC DATA
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.1
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- Arizona State University
- NSF DDIG [0925793]
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grant [8102]
- Duke University
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0925793] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A dataset of high-resolution microCT scans of primate skulls ( crania and mandibles) and certain postcranial elements was collected to address questions about primate skull morphology. The sample consists of 489 scans taken from 431 specimens, representing 59 species of most Primate families. These data have transformative reuse potential as such datasets are necessary for conducting high power research into primate evolution, but require significant time and funding to collect. Similar datasets were previously only available to select research groups across the world. The physical specimens are vouchered at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. The data collection took place at the Center for Nanoscale Systems at Harvard. The dataset is archived on MorphoSource.org. Though this is the largest high fidelity comparative dataset yet available, its provisioning on a web archive that allows unlimited researcher contributions promises a future with vastly increased digital collections available at researchers' finger tips.
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