Relative orbitonasal overlap in African great apes and humans quantified by the automatic determination of horizontal and vertical lines of reference

Primates

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 301-310

  Schmittbuhl, Matthieu ^a   Minor, Jean Marie Le ^b   Schaaf, Andre ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Face; Hominoids; Image analysis; Nasal opening; Orbital opening

Indexed keywords

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0038759615     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557554     Document Type: Article

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