Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts

Quaternary International

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 4-13

  Wu, Xiujie ^a,b   Schepartz, Lynne A ^c   Norton, Christopher J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; TAXONOMY;

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 71549124741     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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