Inter- and intra-specific variation in the ontogeny of the hominoid facial skeleton: Testing assumptions of ontogenetic variability

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 186, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 423-428

  Vidarsdóttir, Una S ^a   Cobb, Sam ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Cranio facial; Geometric morphometrics; Gorilla; Homo; Ontogeny; Pan

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOMETRY; GORILLA; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; SCALE UP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOOTH ERUPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PANISCUS; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 11244341144     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(04)80076-1     Document Type: Article

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