Diversity among African pygmies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Ramírez Rozzi, Fernando V ^a   Sardi, Marina L ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALLOMETRY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PYGMY; HISTOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SKULL;

AFRICA; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 78149448864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013620     Document Type: Article

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