Comparing frontal cranial profiles in archaic and modern homo by morphometric analysis

Anatomical Record

Volumn 257, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 217-224

  Bookstein, Fred ^a   Schäfer, Katrin ^b   Prossinger, Hermann ^c   Seidler, Horst ^a   Fieder, Martin ^b   Stringer, Chris ^c   Weber, Gerhard W ^a   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a   Slice, Dennis E ^a   James Rohlf, F ^b   Recheis, Wolfgang ^a   Mariam, Ato J ^b   Marcus, Leslie F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Comparative anatomy; Computed tomography; Frontal bone; Homo heidelbergensis; Homo sapiens; Human evolution; Human fossil; Imaging; Neanderthals; Procrustes analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FRONTAL BONE; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS;

EID: 0033572638     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19991215)257:6<217::AID-AR7>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Review

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