The shape of human evolution: A geometric morphometrics perspective

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 151-165

  Baab, Karen L ^a   Mcnulty, Kieran P ^b   Rohlf, F James ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota's Evolutionary Anthropology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Integration; Modularity; Paleoanthropology; Shape analysis; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CEPHALOMETRY; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

EID: 84865331150     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21320     Document Type: Article

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