A mandible from the Middle Pleistocene Hexian site and its significance in relation to the variability of Asian Homo erectus

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 715-731

  Liu, Wu ^a   Martinón Torres, María ^b,c   Kaifu, Yousuke ^d   Wu, Xiujie ^a   Kono, Reiko T ^d   Chang, Chun Hsiang ^e   Wei, Pianpian ^f   Xing, Song ^a   Huang, Wanbo ^a   Bermúdez de Castro, José María ^b,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^d DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^f FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Homo erectus; mandible; morphological diversity; teeth

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CHINA; CLADISTICS; DENDRITE; DENTIN; ENAMEL; EUROPE; FOSSIL; GENUS; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MANDIBLE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MOLAR TOOTH; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; TAIWAN; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; HOMINID; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; TOOTH;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CHINA; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; MANDIBLE; TOOTH;

EID: 85009957558     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23162     Document Type: Article

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