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This section aims to understand primate diversity and
human evolution through studies of primate morphology from various
perspectives of physical anthropology and evolutionary biology.
The activity of this section covers a wide range of morphological
studies, such as the field survey on the modern human expansion over the
Pacific, primate developmental studies through somatometry and
osteometry, osteological studies on the craniofacial variations among
extant primates, analyses of human skeletal remains discovered from
archaeological sites, the field survey on the evolution of the fossil
and extant hominoids in Africa and Eurasia, anatomical studies of the
vocal apparatus with reference to the origins of human language, and
functional morphology of the primate masticatory organs.
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