Virtual anthropology (VA): A call for glasnost in paleoanthropology

Anatomical Record

Volumn 265, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 193-201

  Weber, Gerhard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D data; Computed tomography; CT; Human evolution; Magnetic resonance imaging; Morphometry; MRI; Paleoanthropology; Virtual anthropology

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; MORPHOMETRICS; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; EVOLUTION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0035881064     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.1153     Document Type: Review

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