Small-bodied humans from Palau, Micronesia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Berger, Lee R ^a   Churchill, Steven E ^b   De Klerk, Bonita ^a   Quinn, Rhonda L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANTHROPOLOGY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BONE AGE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DWARFISM; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; FOSSIL HUMAN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDONESIA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETON; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAXONOMY; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; MALE;

HOMO SAPIENS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONESIA;

EID: 46349089683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001780     Document Type: Article

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