The one-million-year-old Homo cranium from Bouri (Ethiopia): A reconsideration of its H. erectus affinities

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 731-736

  Manzi, Giorgio ^a,b   Bruner, Emiliano ^a,b   Passarello, Pietro ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IsIPUU   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PRIMATE;

BOURI; ETHIOPIA;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; HOMO ERECTUS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037997449     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00061-7     Document Type: Article

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