Assessing endocranial variations in great apes and humans using 3D data from virtual endocasts

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-246

  Bienvenu, Thibaut ^a,b   Guy, Franck ^a   Coudyzer, Walter ^c   Gilissen, Emmanuel ^d,e,f   Roualdès, Georges ^g   Vignaud, Patrick ^a   Brunet, Michel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b Paris Sciences et Lettres   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^g POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

brain; comparative anatomy; endocast; evolution; hominoids

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN; BRAIN SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GORILLA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79956212982     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21488     Document Type: Article

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