Internal nasal floor configuration in Homo with special reference to the evolution of Neandertal facial form

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 701-729

  Franciscus, Robert G ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaic humans; Nasal cavity; Piriform aperture; Pleistocene hominin evolution; Subnasal morphology

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; RESPIRATION;

CRANIA; HOMO;

EID: 0038673850     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00062-9     Document Type: Article

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