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Table 2 Procrustes distances between taxon means for T12/T13 vertebra shape

From: The ancestral shape hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans

 

Pathological humans

Orangutans

Chimpanzees

Healthy humans

0.0248

0.0539

0.0248

p = 0.018*

p < 0.0001*

p = 0.028*

Chimpanzees

0.0119

0.0352

 

p = 0.5190

p = 0.012*

 

Orangutans

0.0402

  
 

p < 0.0001*

  
  1. *indicates significant value.