Taxonomic characters in middle pleistocene systematics

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 403-415

  Chang, Melanie Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Characters; Cladistics; Homo antecessor; Homo heidelbergensis; Neandertals; Phylogenetic taxonomy; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; FOSSIL; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; SYNAPOMORPHY; TAXONOMY; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

HOMO ANTECESSOR; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 33746946992     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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