A paleoneurological survey of Homo erectus endocranial metrics

Quaternary International

Volumn 368, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-87

  Bruner, Emiliano ^a   Grimaud Hervé, Dominique ^b   Wu, Xiujie ^c   de la Cuétara, José Manuel ^d   Holloway, Ralph ^e  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e Colombia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Endocasts; Endocranial morphology; Human brain evolution; Paleoneurology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; CHINA; INDONESIA;

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 84929510459     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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