The nasal complex of Neanderthals: An entry portal to their place in human ancestry

Anatomical Record

Volumn 297, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2121-2137

  Márquez, Samuel ^a,b   Pagano, Anthony S ^c,d,g   Delson, Eric ^d,e,f   Lawson, William ^c   Laitman, Jeffrey T ^c,d  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d New York City Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Maxillary sinus; Medial projection; Mid Pleistocene Homo; Nasal index; Nasofrontal area; Piriform apertures

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE; NOSE CAVITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; NEANDERTHALS; NOSE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84908292566     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23040     Document Type: Article

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