PalaeoHub, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK.
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2020 Jul;172(3):511-515. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24043. Epub 2020 Mar 18.
Reproducing cranial endocasts is a major goal of researchers interested in vertebrate brain evolution. We present a new R software, named endomaker, which allows the automatic extraction of endocasts from skull meshes along with the calculation of its volume.
We applied endomaker on non-primate and primate skulls including the Australopithecus africanus specimen Sts-5.
We proved endomaker is faster, more feature-rich and possibly more accurate than competing software.
Endomaker is the only available program endowed with the possibility to process an entire mesh directory straight away, promising to expand the scope and phylogenetic breadth of comparative studies of brain evolution.
复制颅腔内膜是对脊椎动物大脑进化感兴趣的研究人员的主要目标。我们提出了一种新的 R 软件，名为 endomaker，它允许沿颅骨网格自动提取内膜，并计算其体积。
我们将 endomaker 应用于非灵长类和灵长类颅骨，包括南方古猿非洲种标本 Sts-5。
我们证明了 endomaker 比竞争软件更快、功能更丰富、可能更准确。
endomaker 是唯一具有直接处理整个网格目录的可能性的可用程序，有望扩大大脑进化比较研究的范围和系统发育广度。
