Environment and morphology in Australian Aborigines: A re-analysis of the Birdsell database

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-91

  Gilligan, Ian ^a   Bulbeck, David ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Climatic adaptation; Human variation

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY BUILD; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOMATOTYPES; STATISTICS;

EID: 34547903278     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20640     Document Type: Article

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