A new homo erectus (Zhoukoudian V) brain endocast from China

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1679, 2010, Pages 337-344

  Wu, Xiujie ^a   Schepartz, Lynne A ^b   Liu, Wu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Endocasts; Homo erectus; Morphological and morphometric features; Zhoukoudian v

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOMINID; MORPHOMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 75749142234     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0149     Document Type: Article

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