Modern human cranial diversity in the late pleistocene of Africa and Eurasia: Evidence from Nazlet Khater, Peştera cu Oase, and Hofmeyr

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 347-358

  Crevecoeur, Isabelle ^a,b   Rougier, Hélène ^a,b,c   Grine, Frederick ^d   Froment, Alain ^e  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Craniometric data; Eurasia; Modern human origins

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEISTOCENE; SKULL DEVELOPMENT;

CRANIA;

EID: 70349117009     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21080     Document Type: Article

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