Cranial shape and size variation in human evolution: Structural and functional perspectives

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1357-1365

  Bruner, Emiliano ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Functional craniology; Hominid evolution; Morphology; Paleoanthropology

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ONTOGENY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRANIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; SKULL;

EID: 36348937972     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-007-0434-2     Document Type: Article

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