Body size, body proportions, and encephalization in a Middle Pleistocene archaic human from northern China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3552-3556

  Rosenberg, Karen R ^a   Zuné, Lü ^b   Ruff, Christopher B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic adaptation; Paleoanthropology; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHINA; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; HUMAN; LIMB; LONG BONE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SKULL; ULNA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; CHINA; COLD CLIMATE; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; SKULL;

EID: 33644871346     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0508681103     Document Type: Article

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