Cranial diversity in South Asia relative to modern human dispersals and global patterns of human variation

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402055614, 2007, Pages 245-268

  Stock, Jay T ^a   Lahr, Marta Mirazón ^a   Kulatilake, Samanti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contemporary population; Indian subcontinent; Modern human; South asian population; Tribal population

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921550655     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5562-5_11     Document Type: Chapter

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