sommergeo / brain_body_map

Map of the brain and body age classes of Homo in the Middle to Late Pleistocene

A web map of brain and body size distributions of Middle to Late Pleistocene Homo finds

This is a web map application to visualize the global distribution of brain and body sizes of Homo finds from the Middle to Late Pleistocene. The underlying anthropological data are published and licensed in

Will, M., Krapp, M., Stock, J.T. et al. (2021). Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo. Nat Commun 12, 4116 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24290-7

Screenshot of the web map

The live map is available at http://www.roceeh.uni-tuebingen.de/maps/brain_body_map/ and it is published as software at 10.5281/zenodo.3660414.

Copyright

The application is built in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and uses the following libraries:

• Leaflet
• Leaflet.markercluster

The web map includes content from

• Will, M. et al. (2021). Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo. Nat Commun 12, 4116 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24290-7
• © OpenStreetMap-Contributors
• Icons from the Noun Project by Adrien Coquet and Brad Avison

Citation

This web application, excluding all scientific data, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 10.5281/zenodo.3660414

Please cite

Christian Sommer & Hanna Pehnert. (2020). A web map application to visualize Middle to Late Pleistocene Homo finds (Version v1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3660414