Primate cranial diversity

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 565-578

  Fleagle, John G ^a   Gilbert, Christopher C ^b   Baden, Andrea L ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphometrics; Principal components analysis; Skull

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SKULL; TAXONOMY; VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY POSTURE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORBIT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSIMIAN;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORBIT; PHYLOGENY; POSTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; STREPSIRHINI;

CRANIA; EULEMUR; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 77954496041     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21272     Document Type: Article

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