Cranial Shape in Asian Homo erectus: Geographic, Anagenetic, and Size-Related Variation

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190935, 2011, Pages 57-79

  Baab, Karen L ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3D geometric morphometrics; China; Indonesia; Middle Pleistocene; Shape variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045672263     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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