A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 452-460

  Wu, Xiujie ^a,b   Holloway, Ralph L ^c   Schepartz, Lynne A ^d   Xing, Song ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

brain evolution; endocast; Homo erectus; Nanjing 1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HUMAN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SKULL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; CHINA; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 79959302376     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21527     Document Type: Article

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