Dental linear metrics from a wild population of baboons (Papio cynocephalus), Kenya

This dataset contains 82 standard linear dimensions of maxillary and
mandibular teeth from 126 individuals from a wild population of yellow
baboons (Papio hamadrays cynocephalus, or Papio cynocephalus, depending on
your taxonomic practice for baboons) from Kenya. The measurements
were taken from a skeletonized population of baboons culled because they
were "pests" to a sisal plantation. The Director of the
Department of Osteology at the Kenyan National Museums collected the
carcasses and prepared them as skeletons. The specimens are located in
Nairobi, housed in the Kenyan National Museums. See our 2007 paper for
more details. The research question driving this data collection
was to test whether or not the latent structure of dental phenotypic
variation within a wild population of baboons is similar to the dental
phenotypic variation in a captive, pedigreed population of baboons. We had
conducted quantitative genetic analyses of dental variation in the captive
colony used for quantitative genetics research but had repeatedly been
asked whether or not the genetic architecture influencing the captive
colony's dental variation was similar to that of their wild
counterparts. These data enabled us to test this hypothesis, and in so
doing, support the hypothesis that the pattern of phenotypic dental
variation is essentially the same. The second molars from this dataset
were used in analyses reported in this publication: Hlusko, L.J. and
Mahaney, M.C., 2007. A multivariate comparison of dental variation in wild
and captive populations of baboons (Papio hamadryas). Archives of
oral biology, 52(2), pp.195-200.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2006.09.008 We share here the wild
population data, as they can be useful to anyone interested in dental
phenotypic variation and covariation in wild baboons. The individuals in
this population are KNOWN TO BE RELATED to each other. Therefore, the
range of variation is not representative of a sample of unrelated
individuals from this species. The similarity between phenotypic
and genotypic correlations was proposed by James Cheverud, and has been
tested as "Cheverud's Conjecture" in evolutionary
biology:  Cheverud, J.M. 1988. A comparison of genetic and
phenotypic correlations. Evolution 42: 958-968. doi:
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1988.tb02514.x Roff, D.A. 1995. The estimation of
genetic correlations from phenotypic correlations: a test of
Cheverud's conjecture. Heredity 74:481-490. doi: 10.1038/hdy.1995.68
Sodini S.M., Kemper K.E., Wray N.R., Trzaskowski M. 2018. Comparison of
genotypic and phenotypic correlations: Cheverud's conjecture in
humans. Genetics 209(3):941-948. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300630