Boas and beyond: Migration and craniometric variation

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 379-386

  Relethford, John H ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRANIOMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

BOA (GENUS);

EID: 3442883983     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20045     Document Type: Article

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