Craniometric evidence for Palaeoamerican survival in Baja California

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6953, 2003, Pages 62-65

  González José, Rolando ^a   González Martin, Antonio ^b   Hernández, Miguel ^a   Pucciarelli, Héctor M ^c   Sardi, Marina ^c   Rosales, Alfonso ^d   Van der Molen, Silvina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^c FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENES; MORPHOLOGY;

GENE FLOW;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ANTHROPOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATION;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRANIOMETRY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; MORPHOMETRICS; PALAEOAMERICAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ASIA; BRAZIL; CLIMATE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GENE POOL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKULL;

MEXICO;

EID: 0041909447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01816     Document Type: Article

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