How to Explore Morphological Integration in Human Evolution and Development?

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 536-553

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^b   Neubauer, Simon ^b   Müller, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canalization; Cranial growth; Developmental integration; Modularity; Morphometrics; Partial least squares analysis

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84870849567     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-012-9178-3     Document Type: Review

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