Human cranial anatomy and the differential preservation of population history and climate signatures

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1225-1233

  Harvati, Katerina ^a   Weaver, Timothy D ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate adaptation; Craniofacial morphology; Human variation; Neutral genetics; Population history

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FACE; FEMALE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOMETRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CEPHALOMETRY; CLIMATE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION; FACE; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33845396793     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20395     Document Type: Article

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