Craniosynostosis in the Middle Pleistocene human cranium 14 from the Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 6573-6578

  Gracia, Ana ^a   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,b   Martínez, Ignacio ^a,c   Lorenzo, Carlos ^d   Carretero, José Miguel ^e   De Castro, José María Bermúdez ^f   Carbonell, Eudald ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^f CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Congenital skull deformation; Human evolution; Paleopathology; Sociobiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOLUTION; FACE ASYMMETRY; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEFECT; SPAIN; AGING; FOSSIL; PATHOLOGY; SKULL;

AGING; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FOSSILS; HUMANS; SKULL; SPAIN;

EID: 66149104521     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900965106     Document Type: Article

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