Chimpanzee variation facilitates the interpretation of the incisive suture closure in South African Plio-Pleistocene hominids

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-135

  Braga, José ^a,b  

^a MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Early Homo; Pan; Paranthropus; South Africa; Stw 53; Sutura incisiva

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CRANIAL SUTURES; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INCISOR; MALE; MAXILLA; PALATE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031888847     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199802)105:2<121::AID-AJPA2>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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