Stature, body mass, and brain size: A two-million-year odyssey

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 551-562

  Gallagher, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Body mass; Brain size; Evolution; Homo; Physical stature

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CAMPANIAN; CHIMPANZEE; EPIPHYSIS; EUROPE; FEMUR; GENUS; GLACIATION; GORILLA; HOLOCENE; HOMINID; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; ICE AGE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOCOMOTION; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MIDDLE AGES; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POSTNATAL GROWTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SYNAPOMORPHY; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; EVOLUTION; HOMO; I00; PHYSICAL STATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84888429801     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: 18736130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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