The influence of modularity on cranial morphological disparity in carnivora and primates (mammalia)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Goswami, Anjali ^a   Polly, P David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; MAMMAL; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORBIT; PRIMATE; SKULL BASE; ZYGOMA; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SKULL;

CARNIVORA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; FOSSILS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PRIMATES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SKULL;

EID: 77949782335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009517     Document Type: Article

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