Fluctuating asymmetry of a foraging population: The Hadza of Tanzania

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 495-501

  Gray, Peter B ^a   Marlowe, F ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY CONSTITUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0036031174     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460110112060     Document Type: Article

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