Cranial Capacity in Neanderthals and Modern Humans — neanderthal_brains

This dataset, neanderthal_brains_df, is a data frame containing measurements of brain size (lnbrain) and body mass (lnmass) from 39 specimens of Neanderthals and early modern humans, identified by species.

Usage

data(neanderthal_brains_df)

Format

A data frame with 39 observations and 3 variables:

ln.mass: Numeric vector representing natural logarithm of body mass
ln.brain: Numeric vector representing natural logarithm of brain size
species: Factor indicating species with 2 levels (Neanderthals and early modern humans)

Source

Data taken from the abd package version 0.2-8

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'neanderthal_brains_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the NeuroDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.