Middle Pleistocene human facial morphology in an evolutionary and developmental context

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 723-740

  Freidline, Sarah E ^a,b,c,d   Gunz, Philipp ^a   Harvati, Katerina ^b,c,d   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allometry; Face; Homo heidelbergensis; Neanderthals; Ontogeny; Semilandmark geometric morphometrics

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANATOMY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; FOSSIL; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; ONTOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; EUROPE;

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84867478569     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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