Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6629, 1997, Pages 173-176

  Ruff, Christopher B ^a   Trinkaus, Erik ^b,c   Holliday, Trenton W ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^d The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMUR; FOSSIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE;

BODY MASS; ENCEPHALIZATION; HOMO; PLEISTOCENE;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 0030619670     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387173a0     Document Type: Article

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