The first skull of Australopithecus boisei

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6650, 1997, Pages 489-492

  Suwa, Gen ^a   Asfaw, Berhane ^b   Beyene, Yonas ^c   White, Tim D ^d   Katoh, Shlgehiro ^e   Nagaoka, Shinji ^f   Nakaya, Hideo ^g   Uzawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Renne, Paul ^h   Woldegabriel, Glday ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Rift Valley Research Service Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^c Ministry of Information and Culture   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Division of Earth Sciences   (Japan)

^f NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALOPITHECUS BOISEI; HOMINID; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; SKULL;

KENYA, TURKANA BASIN; TANZANIA, OLDUVAI GORGE;

EID: 0030801239     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39037     Document Type: Article

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