An assessment of sex using the skull of black South Africans by discriminant function analysis

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-221

  Dayal, M R ^a   Spocter, M A ^a   Bidmos, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 45949088713     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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