On the relationships of postcanine tooth size with dietary quality and brain volume in primates: Implications for hominin evolution

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jiménez Arenas, Juan Manuel ^a,b,c   Pérez Claros, Juan Antonio ^d   Aledo, Juan Carlos ^d   Palmqvist, Paul ^d  

^a Dpto de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Lab de Bioquim y Biol Molecular   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CANINE TOOTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMININ; GENUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH SIZE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; HOMINID; ORGAN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CUSPID; DIET; HOMINIDAE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896837690     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/406507     Document Type: Article

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