Morphometric analyses of hominoid crania, probabilities of conspecificity and an approximation of a biological species constant

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Thackeray, J F ^a   Dykes, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CEPHALOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; COLOBUS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROCEDURES; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; CEPHALOMETRY; COLOBUS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84957431618     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2015.09.003     Document Type: Article

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