Size Variation in Middle Pleistocene Humans
- 22 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 277 (5329) , 1086-1088
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.277.5329.1086
Abstract
It has been suggested that European Middle Pleistocene humans, Neandertals, and prehistoric modern humans had a greater sexual dimorphism than modern humans. Analysis of body size variation and cranial capacity variation in the large sample from the Sima de los Huesos site in Spain showed instead that the sexual dimorphism is comparable in Middle Pleistocene and modern populations.Keywords
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