A probabilistic approach to the craniometric variability of the genus Homo and inferences on the taxonomic affinities of the first human population dispersing out of Africa

Quaternary International

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 219-230

  Jiménez Arenas, Juan Manuel ^a,b   Palmqvist, Paul ^c   Pérez Claros, Juan A ^c  

^a Dpto de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Department of Clinical Pharmacology   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Cranial variability; Hominin dispersal; Homo erectus; Homo habilis

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CRANIUM; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PROBABILITY; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA;

GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO HABILIS; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 81255142006     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.024     Document Type: Article

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