About the Authors

Wataru Morita

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wmorita@kahaku.go.jp (WM); jernvall@fastmail.fm (JJ)

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Naoki Morimoto

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Jukka Jernvall

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wmorita@kahaku.go.jp (WM); jernvall@fastmail.fm (JJ)

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.