LB1's virtual endocast, microcephaly, and hominin brain evolution

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 597-607

  Falk, Dean ^a   Hildebolt, Charles ^b   Smith, Kirk ^b   Morwood, M J ^c,e   Sutikna, Thomas ^d   Jatmiko, ^d   Wayhu Saptomo, E ^d   Prior, Fred ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d Indonesian Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Brain evolution; H. floresiensis; LB1; Microcephaly; Paranthropus; Virtual endocast

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CRANIUM; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKULL;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS; PARANTHROPUS;

EID: 70449117517     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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