Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 13506-13511

  Teaford, Mark F ^a   Ungar, Peter S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DIETARY INTAKE; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; DIET; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; TOOTH;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 0034610375     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.260368897     Document Type: Article

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