Small scattered fragments do not a dwarf make: Biological and archaeological data indicate that prehistoric inhabitants of Palau were normal sized

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Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Fitzpatrick, Scott M ^a   Nelson, Greg C ^b   Clark, Geoffrey ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE STRUCTURE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DWARFISM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; HABITAT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PALAU; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SKULL;

HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; PALAU; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL;

EID: 54949131697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003015     Document Type: Article

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