Of muscle-bound crania and human brain evolution: the story behind the MYH16 headlines.

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  • Melanie A McCollum
  • Chet C Sherwood
  • Christopher J Vinyard
  • C Owen Lovejoy
  • Fred Schachat
چکیده

a Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA 31207, USA b Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA c Department of Anatomy, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA d Division of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA e Department of Cell Biology, Division of Physiology, Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC 27710, USA

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of human evolution

دوره 50 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006