Fossil Skulls from Dmanisi: A Paleodeme Representing Earliest Homo in Eurasia

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190355, 2010, Pages 225-243

  Rightmire, G Philip ^a,b   Lordkipanidze, David ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgian National Museum   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Character analysis; Cranial anatomy; Homo erectus; Homo habilis; Human evolution; Species; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020504551     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9036-2_14     Document Type: Chapter

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