The evolutionary role of modularity and integration in the hominoid cranium

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 943-958

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a,b   Bookstein, Fred ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniofacial growth; Factor analysis; Geometric morphometrics; Heterochrony; Human evolution; Morphological integration; Partial least squares

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PLEIOTROPY; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GORILLA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SKULL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SKULL;

CRANIA; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 41749124131     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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