Ape-like australopithecus after seventy years: Was it a hominid?

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 283-308

  Tobias, Phillip V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 0008399699     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3034503     Document Type: Article

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