Characterizing the evolutionary path(s) to early homo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Schroeder, Lauren ^a   Roseman, Charles C ^b   Cheverud, James M ^c   Ackermann, Rebecca R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SKULL; SPECIES; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HOMINID; JAW; MANDIBLE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENETIC DRIFT; HOMINIDAE; JAW; MANDIBLE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SKULL;

EID: 84937989761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114307     Document Type: Article

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