They are mainly for scientists interested in the development of mammal skull. But the results should also be published for the public interested in dogs, like breeders and judges. We'll try to show this with an example. Many standards insist on a strong or on a weak stop, the stop being the angle between the brain skull and the muzzle. This can very easily be done by selecting such dogs while breeding. The problem is, that a changing of this angle always results in an absolute shortening of skull size. As we have showed previously upper and lower jaw size are not correlated and changing too much the size of the skull will in many cases result in a protruding lower jaw, which is not desired in many breeds. To show such relationships between demands from standards and the consequences is part of our work.
