Paleontology: Primate origins nailed

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5598, 2002, Pages 1564-1565

  Sargis, Eric J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIMATE;

EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOOT; FOSSILS; HALLUX; HOOF AND CLAW; LOCOMOTION; NAILS; ORBIT; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SKELETON; WYOMING;

PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037159731     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079034     Document Type: Short Survey

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18. I thank J. I. Bloch and D. M. Boyer for useful discussions and L. Swedell for helpful comments. I also thank D. M. Boyer for preparing the first figure and P. Morrighan for preparing the second figure.