Changes in human skull morphology across the agricultural transition are consistent with softer diets in preindustrial farming groups

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 34, 2017, Pages 9050-9055

  Katz, David C ^a,b   Grote, Mark N ^a   Weaver, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Farmers; Foragers; Human skull form; Mastication; Subsistence effects

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; DAIRYING; DIET; DOMESTICATION; FEMALE; FORAGER; GENE FLOW; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MASTICATION; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SKULL; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; AGRICULTURE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES;

AGRICULTURE; DIET; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FARMERS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKULL;

EID: 85027888782     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702586114     Document Type: Article

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