A Shared Pattern of Postnatal Endocranial Development in Extant Hominoids

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 572-594

  Scott, Nadia ^a   Neubauer, Simon ^a   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endocranium; Evolutionary development; Geometric morphometrics; Heterochrony; Hominoid; Virtual endocast

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939877447     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: 19342845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-014-9290-7     Document Type: Article

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