Morphometric variation in the papionin muzzle and the biochronology of the South African Plio-Pleistocene karst cave deposits

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 418-429

  Gilbert, Christopher C ^a   Grine, Frederick E ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cercopithecoids; Makapansgat; Mean; Parapapio; Relative dating; Sexual dimorphism; Standard deviation; Sterkfontein; Variance

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; FOSSIL PRIMATE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PAPIONIN MONKEY; PHENOTYPE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRIMATE; SAMPLE SIZE; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CEPHALOMETRY; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMINIDAE; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY; PAPIO; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA; THEROPITHECUS;

CERCOPITHECOIDEA; MAMMALIA; PARAPAPIO;

EID: 76149143991     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21160     Document Type: Article

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