How humans differ from other animals in their levels of morphological variation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  McKellar, Ann E ^a   Hendry, Andrew P ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70149097794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006876     Document Type: Article

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