Comparative analysis of the morphological taxons determined on the basis of skeletal measurements and the morphological taxons determined on the basis of soft tissues measurements

The analysis were performed on the sample of 200 healthy males, 10 to 27 years old. The first analysis was made in the space of skeletal dimensions and the second in the space of the voluminosity, and fat tissue dimensions. Both analyses were performed according to algorithm and program MORPHOTAX, and the interpretation of the taxonomic variables was made mainly on the basis of correlation matrixes between taxons derived from skeletal measurements and taxons derived from soft tissue measurements were determined as crosscorrelations of taxonomic variables. In the skeletal characteristic space three taxonomic dimensions were obtained. The first skeletal taxon differentiates between people with well developed skeletons, mainly in longitudinal direction from people with poorly developed skeletons; the second skeletal axon differentiates people with large elbow and wrist diameters and narrow knees and hands, from people in whom these transversal measurements are large. In the soft tissue space measurement two taxonomic dimensions were obtained. The first taxonomic dimensions is defined by all measurements of body circumference with very high correlations, but also by all measurements of fat tissue with medium correlations. The second taxonomic dimension is defined by all different measurements are very low and negatively correlated with this dimension. The relationship between taxons derived on the basis of skeletal measurements and those derived on the basis of soft tissue measurements are not the same. The first skeletal taxon is significantly and negatively correlated with the second taxon from the same measurements. The correlations just described. The third skeletal taxon is significantly of the second skeletal taxon are very similar to those and negatively correlated only with the first soft tissue