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Reconstruction, endocranial form and taxonomic affinity of the early Homo calvaria KNM-ER 42700

  • Simon Neubauer
  • , Philipp Gunz
  • , Louise Leakey
  • , Meave Leakey
  • , Jean Jacques Hublin
  • , Fred Spoor

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-39
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Human Evolution
Volume121
Early online date26 Apr 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2018
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We are grateful to Karen Baab, Antoine Balzeau, another anonymous reviewer, the associate editor and the editor David Alba for constructive comments during the review process. We thank the government of Kenya, the National Museums of Kenya, and especially E. Mbua and F.K. Manthi for research permission and support, and C. Kiarie for fossil preparation. We thank F. Grine, S. Márquez, C. Röding, F. Schrenk, B. Sokhi, K. Spanel-Borowski, H. Temming and G.W. Weber for access to specimens and CT scans as well as acquisition of CT data and CT data preprocessing. We are grateful to S. Benazzi, who provided his digital reconstruction of KNM-ER 1813. This work was supported by the Max Planck Society and the Calleva Foundation .

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106056 Biological anthropology

Keywords

  • Brain evolution
  • CT scans
  • Endocast
  • Geometric morphometrics
  • Homo erectus
  • Shape
  • SHAPE CHANGES
  • SKULL
  • CLOSURE
  • SPHENO-OCCIPITAL SYNCHONDROSIS
  • GROWTH CHANGES
  • AUSTRALOPITHECUS-SEDIBA
  • FACIAL GROWTH
  • GREAT APES
  • MOJOKERTO CHILD
  • BRAIN

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