Temporal squama shape in fossil hominins: Relationships to cranial shape and a determination of character polarity

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 397-411

  Terhune, Claire E ^a   Deane, Andrew S ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial morphology; High Resolution Polynomial Curve Fitting (HR PCF); Homo erectus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALVARIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOMETRY; CURVE FITTING; FOSSIL HOMINID; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; SKULL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHARACTER; CHINA; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SKULL;

EID: 57149114152     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20882     Document Type: Article

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