South Amerindian craniofacial morphology: Diversity and implications for Amerindian evolution

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 747-756

  Sardi, Marina L ^a,b   Rozzi, Fernando Ramírez ^a   González José, Rolando ^c   Pucciarelli, Héctor M ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Craniometries; FST; Variation

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIODIVERSITY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MELANESIA; PLEISTOCENE; POLYNESIA; REFERENCE VALUE; SOUTH AMERICA;

CRANIOLOGY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 28544438156     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20235     Document Type: Article

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