Meanings
- not comparableHaving a broad femur
In terms of the platymeric index, a Kruskal-Wallis test revealed significant differences among sample medians (p0.040): post hoc comparisons revealed significant differences between MPHO and NEAN (p0.016), and NEAN and EULU (p0.014) (Fig 2F).
2015 December 18, “A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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