A geometric morphometric study of a Middle Pleistocene cranium from Hexian, China

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 88, Issue , 2015, Pages 54-69

  Cui, Yaming ^a,b   Wu, Xinzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Hexian; Human evolution; Middle Pleistocene; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRANIUM; FOSSIL; GEOMETRY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE;

ANHUI; CHINA; HEXIAN;

HOMO ERECTUS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CEPHALOMETRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEPHALOMETRY; CHINA; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

EID: 84945305318     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.08.001     Document Type: Article

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