Sexual dimorphism in skeletal browridge and chin morphologies determined using a new quantitative method

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 661-670

  Garvin, Heather M ^a   Ruff, Christopher B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

laser scanning; mental eminence; morphometric; sex determination; supraorbital torus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHIN; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; OSTEOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETON; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CEPHALOMETRY; CHIN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; SKULL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859109883     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22036     Document Type: Article

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