Postnatal temporal bone ontogeny in Pan, Gorilla, and Homo, and the implications for temporal bone ontogeny in Australopithecus afarensis

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 630-642

  Terhune, Claire E ^a   Kimbel, William H ^b   Lockwood, Charles A ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geometric morphometrics; human evolution; temporal bone

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; TEMPORAL BONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL BONE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 84880528936     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22318     Document Type: Article

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