Secular changes in head dimensions of Japanese adult male students over eight decades

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 239-250

  Hossain, Md Golam ^a   Lestrel, Pete E ^b   Ohtsuki, Fumio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRANIOMETRY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE;

EID: 13844253792     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2003.04.001     Document Type: Article

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