title: Network models in anatomical systems.
abstract: Network theory has been extensively used to model the underlying structure of biological  processes. From genetics to ecology, network thinking is changing our understanding of complex systems,  specifically how their internal structure determines their overall behavior. Concepts such as hubs, scale-free  or small-world networks, common in the complexity literature, are now used more and more in sociology,  neurosciences, as well as other anthropological fields. Even though the use of network models is nowadays so  widely applied, few attempts have been carried out to enrich our understanding in the classical morphological  sciences such as in comparative anatomy or physical anthropology. The purpose of this article is to introduce  the usage of network tools in morphology; specifically by building anatomical networks, dealing with the  most common analyses and problems, and interpreting their outcome.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Biology Research Group, Institute Cavanilles for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain, diego.rasskin@uv.es.
authors.forename: Borja
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Esteve-Altava
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marugán-Lobón
authors.forename: Héctor
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Botella
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rasskin-Gutman
mesh_terms: D000717:Anatomy, Comparative; D000818:Animals; D000885:Anthropology, Physical; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D013598:Systems Theory