Early hominid brain evolution: A new look at old endocasts

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 695-717

  Falk, Dean ^a   Redmond Jr , John C ^a   Guyer, John ^a   Conroy, Glenn C ^b   Recheis, Wolfgang ^c   Weber, Gerhard W ^d   Seidler, Horst ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Endocasts; Frontal lobe; Paleoneurology; Paranthropus; Phylogeny; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

ANIMALIA; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PANISCUS; PARANTHROPUS; TROGLODYTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034071533     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1999.0378     Document Type: Article

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