A new tool for digital alignment in virtual anthropology
The study of the fossil record is fundamental to understand the evolution of morphological traits. Fossil remains often appear fragmented and/or deformed by taphonomic processes, which result in cracks, missing portions and deformation of the original morphology. In paleoanthropology, cranial remains are at the same time the most informative and sometimes the most badly deformed fossil portions, often presenting themselves broken, partially incomplete, and/or distorted.