Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopa

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7023, 2005, Pages 301-305

  Semaw, Sileshl ^a   Simpson, Scott W ^b,c   Quade, Jay ^d   Renne, Paul R ^e,f   Butter, Robert F ^d   McIntosh, William C ^g,h   Levin, Haomi ^d   Domingues Rodrigo, Manuel ⁱ   Rodgers, Michael J ^j  

^a Stone Age Institute   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^j SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LANDFORMS; RADIOISOTOPES; RAIN;

ENDOMORPHOLOGICAL VARIABLES; FAUNAL COMPOSITION; FOSSILS; GONA WESTER MARGIN (GWM), AFAR, ETHIOPIA; PLIOCENE HOMINIDS; RADICULAR ANATOMY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBON; RAIN;

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE;

ARTICLE; CHAD; CHIMPANZEE; ENAMEL; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOREST; FOSSIL; GRASSLAND; HOMINID; KENYA; MIOCENE; MOLAR TOOTH; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; PREMOLAR TOOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UPPER MIOCENE; ZANCLEAN;

ANIMALS; DENTAL ENAMEL; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; JAW; POACEAE; RAIN; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH; TREES;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ETHIOPIA; GONA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; ZANCLEA;

EID: 12744273143     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03177     Document Type: Article

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