Exploring sexual dimorphism of the modern human talus through geometric morphometric methods

• Rita Sorrentino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rita Sorrentino, Maria Giovanna Belcastro

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6529-7250

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• Maria Giovanna Belcastro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rita Sorrentino, Maria Giovanna Belcastro

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, ADES, UMR 7268 CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/EFS, Aix-Marseille Université, Bd Pierre Dramard, France

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• Carla Figus,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy

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• Nicholas B. Stephens,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States of America

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• Kevin Turley,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States of America

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• William Harcourt-Smith,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States of America, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, New York, NY, United States of America, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Timothy M. Ryan,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States of America

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• Stefano Benazzi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: stefano_benazzi@eva.mpg.de

  Affiliations Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4305-6920

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