Cranial Morphology and Variation of the Earliest Indonesian Hominids

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190935, 2011, Pages 143-157

  Kaifu, Yousuke ^a   Indriati, Etty ^b   Aziz, Fachroel ^b   Kurniawan, Iwan ^b   Baba, Hisao ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Early Pleis tocene; Homo erectus; Human evolution; Java; Out of Africa 1; Sangiran; Trinil

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045616588     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_11     Document Type: Chapter

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