Middle and later Pleistocene hominins in Africa and Southwest Asia

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

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16046-16050

  Rightmire, G Philip ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homo heidelbergensis; Homo sapiens; Human evolution; Skull morphology; Systematics

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BONE STRUCTURE; BRAIN SIZE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMINID; HOMINID; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS; HUMAN; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETON; SKULL BASE; SOUTH ASIA; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BONE; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; FACE; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKULL; TIME;

CRANIA; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ASIA; BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FACE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKULL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349519050     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903930106     Document Type: Review

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