Ancestral dental traits in recent Sub-Saharan Africans and the origins of modern humans

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-98

  Irish, Joel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Ancestral and derived characters; Biological affinity; Dental anthropology; Human origins; Morphological variation; Phenetic similarity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HUMAN; TOOTH MORPHOLOGY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTITION, PERMANENT; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEODONTOLOGY;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031811068     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1997.0191     Document Type: Article

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