Homo floresiensis Contextualized: A Geometric Morphometric Comparative Analysis of Fossil and Pathological Human Samples

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Baab, Karen L ^a   McNulty, Kieran P ^b   Harvati, Katerina ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOSSIL HOMININ; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HUMAN; LARON SYNDROME; MICROCEPHALY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; SKULL;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BONE AND BONES; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INDONESIA; ISLANDS; LARON SYNDROME; MICROCEPHALY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL;

CRANIA; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO FLORESIENSIS;

EID: 84880018778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069119     Document Type: Article

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