Virtual Study of the Endocranial Morphology of the Matrix-Filled Cranium from Eliye Springs, Kenya

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 276, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-133

  Bräuer, Günter ^a   Groden, Christoph ^b   Gröning, Flora ^a   Kroll, Angelika ^a   Kupczik, Kornelius ^a,c   Mbua, Emma ^d   Pommert, Andreas ^e   Schiemann, Thomas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaic Homo sapiens; Endocranium; Paleoanthropology; Virtual reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DURA MATER; EVOLUTION; HOLOCENE; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; KENYA; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 17544384882     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.90122     Document Type: Article

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