Morphological Continuity of the Face in the Late Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominins from Northwestern Africa: A 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400729285, 2012, Pages 179-188

  Harvati, K ^a   Hublin, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aterian; Facial morphology; Modern human origins; Neandertals; Upper Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045656827     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2929-2_12     Document Type: Chapter

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