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Occipital bunning among later pleistocene hominids
Author(s) -
Trinkaus Erik,
Lemay Marjorie
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330570106
Subject(s) - homo sapiens , pleistocene , cranial vault , neanderthal , paleontology , hominidae , geology , anatomy , biology , evolutionary biology , skull , geography , biological evolution , archaeology , genetics
Occipital bunning is a posterior projection of the occipital squama, which occurs in varying frequencies in samples of archaic Homo sapiens , Upper Pleistocene anatomically modern humans, and recent humans. It can be best interpreted as a product of the timing of posterior cerebral growth relative to the growth of the cranial vault bones. It is not a feature that was unique to the Neandertals.