An Enlarged Parietal Foramen in the Late Archaic Xujiayao 11 Neurocranium from Northern China, and Rare Anomalies among Pleistocene Homo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Xiu Jie ^a   Xing, Song ^a   Trinkaus, Erik ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARACHNOID; ARTICLE; CHINA; CRANIAL SUTURE; ENLARGED PARIETAL FORAMEN; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HUMAN; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PARIETAL FORAMEN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PLEISTOCENE; SKULL; SKULL DEFECT; SKULL MALFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PARIETAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84875069869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059587     Document Type: Article

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