Metopic suture of Taung (Australopithecus africanus) and its implications for hominin brain evolution

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

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8467-8470

  Falk, Dean ^a,b   Zollikofer, Christoph P E ^c   Morimoto, Naoki ^c   Ponce De León, Marcia S ^c  

^a School of Advanced Research   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain size evolution; Fossil hominins; Frontal cortex; Obstetrics; Virtual endocast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; BIRTH; BRAIN GROWTH; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUTURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CRANIAL SUTURES; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 84861881674     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119752109     Document Type: Article

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