Morphological and taxonomic affinities of the olduvai ulna (OH 36)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-110

  Aiello, Leslie C ^a   Wood, Bernard ^b   Key, Cathy ^a   Lewis, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Fossil hominin; Homo erectus; Human evolution; OH 36; Olduvai; Paranthropus boisei; Species recognition; Ulna

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FEMUR; FOREARM; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MANDIBLE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY; ULNA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY; ULNA;

EID: 0032930622     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199905)109:1<89::AID-AJPA8>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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