Geometric morphometric analysis of the early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Jianshi, Hubei Province, China

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1141-1152

  Liu, Wu ^a   Clarke, Ronald ^b   Xing, Song ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; geometric morphometric; Hubei; human evolution; Jianshi; shape; tooth

Indexed keywords

CROWN SHAPE; DENTAL CROWNS; EAST ASIA; GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS; HOMININS; HOMO ERECTUS; HUBEI PROVINCE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; PLEISTOCENE;

GEOMETRY;

DENTISTRY;

ASYMMETRY; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOMETRY; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; SHAPE; SYMMETRY; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

CHINA; HUBEI; JIANSHI;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 77955306088     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-4013-0     Document Type: Article

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