Morphological comparison between Brazilian's mandibles and populations from four continents;Comparaciones morfológicas entre las mandíbulas de Brasileños y de poblaciones de otros continentes

International Journal of Morphology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 323-327

  Prado, Felippe Bevilacqua ^a   Caria, Paulo Henrique Ferreira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brazil; Mandible; Morphology; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 35048834386     PISSN: 07179367     EISSN: 07179502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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