Craniofacial morphological microevolution of Holocene populations in northern China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1661-1668

  Wu, XiuJie ^a   Liu, Wu ^a   Zhang, QuanChao ^a,b   Zhu, Hong ^b   Norton, Christopher J ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene Chinese populations; Microevolution; Morphology; Skull

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547350562     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0227-8     Document Type: Article

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