Juvenile hominoid cranium from the late Miocene of southern China and hominoid diversity in Asia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6882-6885

  Kelley, Jay ^a   Gao, Feng ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIVUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FAUNA; FOSSIL HOMINOID; FRONTAL SINUS; GORILLA; JUVENILE ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UPPER MIOCENE;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

CRANIA; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; LUFENGPITHECUS; MAMMALIA; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SIVAPITHECUS;

EID: 84860793165     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201330109     Document Type: Article

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