The Spearman and the Archer—An Essay on Selection in Body Build

1959/06/01 by ALICE BRUES, Alice M. Brues · 54 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Art history #Artificial intelligence #Citation #Classics #Computer science #History #Library science #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Selection (genetic algorithm)

paper · doi:10.1525/aa.1959.61.3.02a00080

published in American Anthropologist 61(3), 457-469 (Wiley)

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