Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 733-741

  Grün, Rainer ^a   Spooner, Nigel A ^a   Thorne, Alan ^a   Mortimer, Graham ^a   Simpson, John J ^b   McCulloch, Malcolm T ^a   Taylor, Lois ^a   Curnoe, Darren ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BONE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; NOTE; TIME;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BONE AND BONES; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034181463     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.2000.0399     Document Type: Article

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