Craniofacial sexual dimorphism patterns and allometry among extant hominids

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 186, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 471-478

  Schaefer, Katrin ^a   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^a   Bernhard, Markus ^a   Bookstein, Fred L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniofacial sexual dimorphism pattern; Geometric morphometrics; Growth allometry; Hominids

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOIDEA; APE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PANISCUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 11244283330     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(04)80086-4     Document Type: Article

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