Historical note: Early anthropological contributions to geometric morphometrics

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 291-296

  Cole III, Theodore M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boas; Method of least differences; Procrustes; Superimposition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030255792     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199610)101:2<291::AID-AJPA11>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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