Surpisingly rapid growth in Neanderthals

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6986, 2004, Pages 936-939

  Ramirez Rozzi, Fernando V ^a   Bermudez De Castro, Joś Maria ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BRAIN; DENTAL MATERIALS; NATURAL SCIENCES;

DENTAL GROWTH; SOMATIC DEVELOPMENT;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

GROWTH RATE; NEANDERTHAL; TOOTH;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; ENAMEL; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEANDERTHAL; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CANINE TOOTH; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO ANTECESSOR; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CUSPID; DENTAL ENAMEL; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2342432171     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02428     Document Type: Article

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