Chin morphology and sexual dimorphism in the fossil hominid mandible sample from Klasies River Mouth

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 545-557

  Lam, Y M ^a   Pearson, O M ^a   Smith, Cameron M ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; Early Upper Pleistocene; Mental eminence; Middle Stone Age; Neandertals

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHIN; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALS; CHIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; PALEONTOLOGY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS;

EID: 0029820547     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199608)100:4<545::AID-AJPA8>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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