Facial ontogeny in Neanderthals and modern humans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1614, 2007, Pages 1125-1132

  Bastir, Markus ^a   O'Higgins, Paul ^b   Rosas, Antonio ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Human evolution; Post natal growth and development; Procrustes form space

Indexed keywords

HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; ONTOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY;

ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 34447330673     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0448     Document Type: Article

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