Virtual ancestor reconstruction: Revealing the ancestor of modern humans and Neandertals

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 91, Issue , 2016, Pages 57-72

  Mounier, Aurélien ^a,b   Mirazón Lahr, Marta ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Turkana Basin Institute   (Kenya)

Author keywords

3D geometric morphometrics; H. heidelbergensis; H. neanderthalensis; H. sapiens; Last common ancestor; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; FOSSIL RECORD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NEANDERTHALS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

EID: 84957693169     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.11.002     Document Type: Article

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