Patterning of geographic variation in Middle Pleistocene Homo frontal bone morphology

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 627-643

  Athreya, Sheela ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elliptical Fourier Analysis; Frontal bone morphology; Geographical variation; Middle Pleistocene Homo; Partial Mantel matrix correlation test; Population structure

Indexed keywords

BONE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

CRANIA;

EID: 33747326900     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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