Longitudinal morphological growth data of apes are incredibly difficult to obtain. Long life histories, combined with practical and ethical issues of obtaining such long‐term data have resulted in few longitudinal data sets in chimpanzees of known chronological ages. One classic, long‐term growth study of chimpanzees was that of Drs Nissen and Riesen initiated at the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology in 1939. Through that study, whole‐body radiological images were taken on a regular basis from a “normative” group of chimpanzees from birth to adulthood. Here we have digitized the known remaining radiographs from that growth study, many of which are deteriorating, and uploaded the data set to the free, online database MorphoSource. The database comprises 3,568 X‐ray images of 15 of the 16 chimpanzee subjects in the normative group and 1 individual from an experimental group. Herein, we briefly review the historical context of this study and specific details of the data set.

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Nissen-Riesen黑猩猩放射生长系列的数字化。

猿的纵向形态生长数据非常难以获得。长期的历史，再加上获得此类长期数据的实践和道德问题，导致已知年代的黑猩猩的纵向数据集很少。关于黑猩猩的一项经典，长期的生长研究是1939年在耶鲁大学灵长类生物学实验室发起的Nissen和Riesen博士。通过该研究，定期从一组“标准化”的动物身上拍摄全身放射图像。黑猩猩从出生到成年。在这里，我们已经数字化了该增长研究中剩下的已知X射线照片，其中许多照片正在恶化，并将数据集上传到免费的在线数据库MorphoSource。该数据库包含3个，正常组中16名黑猩猩受试者中的15名和实验组中1名个体的568张X射线图像。在此，我们简要回顾了这项研究的历史背景以及数据集的具体细节。