Is paleoanthropology science? Naming new fossils and control of access to them

Anatomical Record

Volumn 269, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 239-241

  Tattersall, Ian ^a   Schwartz, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative anatomy; Evolution; Fossils; Morphology; Paleoanthropology; Systematics

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0037115249     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10187     Document Type: Short Survey

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