New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6680, 1998, Pages 62-66

  Leakey, Meave G ^a   Feibel, Craig S ^b   McDougall, Ian ^c   Ward, Carol ^d   Walker, Alan ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINID; PLIOCENE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE;

ALLIA; ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS ANAMENSIS; HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032492898     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29972     Document Type: Article

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