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Impaired Air Conditioning within the Nasal Cavity in Flat-Faced Homo

We are flat-faced hominins with an external nose that protrudes from the face. This feature was derived in the genus Homo, along with facial flattening and reorientation to form a high nasal cavity. The nasal passage conditions the inhaled air in terms of temperature and humidity to match the condit...

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Autores principales: Nishimura, Takeshi, Mori, Futoshi, Hanida, Sho, Kumahata, Kiyoshi, Ishikawa, Shigeru, Samarat, Kaouthar, Miyabe-Nishiwaki, Takako, Hayashi, Misato, Tomonaga, Masaki, Suzuki, Juri, Matsuzawa, Tetsuro, Matsuzawa, Teruo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4807068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27010321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004807